Tomorrow

Tomorrow the weather looks promising - sunny and about 50 degrees - so I intend to get out and enjoy it. I have been too long inside, with the holidays and the working and the coldness (of which I am extremely pathetic about), and I hope to run my errands in such a way as to make them adventurous. I have to go to the drug store, bank, and library, but perhaps I can check out an art store, a new boutique, or see how the rose garden is looking so far this winter.

I also have many projects beckoning me to stay inside and complete, but hopefully the allure of sunny warmish weather will override my procrastination. Maybe....maybe I'll even do everything on my list. And then, as a reward, tramp through the urban wilderness. To some people that might not seem like much of a reward, but walking through the city is always interesting.

The last time I took a tramp was the day after the election. I swear the air itself was celebrating -everything seemed elated - and I'm not even a huge supporter. I voted for him, yes, but there ended my support. I'm just not that in to politics, sorry. But the world did seem like a better place. That could have been the strangly balmy air in November, but that is how it felt, regardless of political leanings.

I love "discovering" a place in a city. Of course, in a city you are never the first person to find something. Others have seen it, others have been there. But to come across something you never knew existed, and has never come up in conversation, and seems to have materialised from the ether -there are so many of these things in cities -new places, new things, new people - and they are always new to someone. In a neighborhood a couple of months ago, I came across some urban conservation preserve, a house, in a fairly discreet neighborhood, which was left to grow untended, as in nature. The "lawn" was covered with ground cover and the dried stalks of wildflowers, the trees were shady. There was a path through the yard to the front porch, beckoning the weary traveler to step "inside" this wilderness, and enjoy the rejuvenating power of nature. And it was on the corner of Charlotte and 57th.

So tomorrow, that future time in which all things are possible, I will be out in the world, discovering things, new and old, for myself.