My trip to Portland and its surrounds
Oct. 25th, 2011 03:57 pmBy Honey Bee
We start our adventure with a harrowing experience, 12 hours in plane or airport. Physical breakdown followed by emotional release. Given how much emotion we humans hold frozen is poor body mechanics I wonder if one didn't necessitate the other. I don't really know. I do know that the emotional release was triggered by a line in a book that I had put off reading for a while now. Nothing like a literary work but profound things can be found in the most unlikely places. Nope, not sharing what the line was, sadly that would be considered inflammatory. Sufficed to say that it mattered to me. It all went into my paper journal.
Dinner that night at Tin Shed and dessert at Pix Patisserie were both amazing. Many thanks for being rescued from the airport hell by![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
dawningday. Not sure I was capable of navigating bus lines at that point in a very long day. Got dropped off at jasminewind&T's house to settle in before my convention started the next day. Having people in the place where I am landing that are willing to share their space and their love of their town is so transformative.
L had a test to study for so I didn't see her much for a couple of days. Two hour time change had my sleep all wonky the whole trip. I managed. My convention was a good thing for me to attend. I got to learn a bunch of things that I want to incorporate into my practice, self and business, and one modality that I want to look into studying in more depth. I also learned that it is ok to speak up and remove myself from a situation before it destroys me. Or rather, I learned that lesson before and I implemented it in the right place in the right time to avoid having it wreck my whole visit. Huh. Give Thanks.
The weekend spent with E was amazing. We had fun and stayed within my physical limits. Ate amazing foods. Bought socks. Even got to experience some things with him that he'd not seen yet. Still don't remember the name of that thai place but anywhere that successfully combines nachos with pad thai needs a medal. Met a chunk of his friends and realized that there are people out there that are ok with casual physical touch. I'm not alone. I probably am weird. That's ok tho.
I got to experience Portland at its best in Oct. I swear it was trying to impress me. The sun was out for some portion of every day. My request for sun the day I went to the beach was granted. I have a picture of me on the beach with the sun behind me. I need to go back for sure. As E said, "You have to come back. I didn't get to show you everything yet." I definitely need to go back when I don't have to spend the majority of time and energy on business. Despite being a physical stressor, travel is really really good for me. I got to feel things freeing up and moving within me and realized how long it had been since I truly looked forward to travel without the Honey.
Thank you for being exactly what I needed when I needed to experience it and was capable of letting it do what I needed to have done. *kisses*
We start our adventure with a harrowing experience, 12 hours in plane or airport. Physical breakdown followed by emotional release. Given how much emotion we humans hold frozen is poor body mechanics I wonder if one didn't necessitate the other. I don't really know. I do know that the emotional release was triggered by a line in a book that I had put off reading for a while now. Nothing like a literary work but profound things can be found in the most unlikely places. Nope, not sharing what the line was, sadly that would be considered inflammatory. Sufficed to say that it mattered to me. It all went into my paper journal.
Dinner that night at Tin Shed and dessert at Pix Patisserie were both amazing. Many thanks for being rescued from the airport hell by
dawningday. Not sure I was capable of navigating bus lines at that point in a very long day. Got dropped off at jasminewind&T's house to settle in before my convention started the next day. Having people in the place where I am landing that are willing to share their space and their love of their town is so transformative.L had a test to study for so I didn't see her much for a couple of days. Two hour time change had my sleep all wonky the whole trip. I managed. My convention was a good thing for me to attend. I got to learn a bunch of things that I want to incorporate into my practice, self and business, and one modality that I want to look into studying in more depth. I also learned that it is ok to speak up and remove myself from a situation before it destroys me. Or rather, I learned that lesson before and I implemented it in the right place in the right time to avoid having it wreck my whole visit. Huh. Give Thanks.
The weekend spent with E was amazing. We had fun and stayed within my physical limits. Ate amazing foods. Bought socks. Even got to experience some things with him that he'd not seen yet. Still don't remember the name of that thai place but anywhere that successfully combines nachos with pad thai needs a medal. Met a chunk of his friends and realized that there are people out there that are ok with casual physical touch. I'm not alone. I probably am weird. That's ok tho.
I got to experience Portland at its best in Oct. I swear it was trying to impress me. The sun was out for some portion of every day. My request for sun the day I went to the beach was granted. I have a picture of me on the beach with the sun behind me. I need to go back for sure. As E said, "You have to come back. I didn't get to show you everything yet." I definitely need to go back when I don't have to spend the majority of time and energy on business. Despite being a physical stressor, travel is really really good for me. I got to feel things freeing up and moving within me and realized how long it had been since I truly looked forward to travel without the Honey.
Thank you for being exactly what I needed when I needed to experience it and was capable of letting it do what I needed to have done. *kisses*