Glorious Days

Something about the coziness of being in this 'efficiency' apartment that invites me to write. So we are in DC now and the apartment is Bi's. Washington DC where everything is Capitol and Presidential, American and First. Many a day have passed since I wrote last. Many people, many vistas, trees and miles! So, the day we were leaving Atlanta, we stopped on the way out to meet Shalini - a college friend, who I hadn't seen or met since 1983. How does one 'catch up' on 27 years of connection that has been like an underground stream - there but not seen, heard or even felt? And then suddenly 'it' reappears. Surfaces. Now it is alive and bubbling!

From Atlanta to Tryon, on the border between North and South Carolina. It's in the North part of this gorgeous gorgeous belt of hill, lake and color dripping trees. A word about the trees from today - I think people living in America are so fortunate. How wonderful it must be to wake up everyday - during Fall - and walk out of the door into the fairyland that this landscape. It's like living in a painting!

To continue - Yep! done it again - the scenic-drive meandering through my conversation here. Ok, to continue - So we went to Tryon, near Asheville and met The Davins, who are absolutely lovely. They live in a beautiful house by a little lake and the golf course. The porch is covered and has windows wrapping it in light, color and the moon glow when it shone in the night smiling at us at the dining table and as Carol's hidden stream of energy was fed by these loving elders from her past.

From Tryon to Charlotte, North Carolina. The romantic, the gracious, the home of Margaret Mitchell. Perhaps she spelled out the words of Gone With the Wind sitting on the swing in a gazebo and blooming magnolia trees leaned over her shoulders to take a sneak peak at the book, while slim pencil-pillars holding up terraces and porches of her mansion provided a backdrop that stretched into the Carolina blue skies.

And, at this time, I am about to wind up this little piece about our lives and others'. Today is Prithvi's birthday. We are going out for lunch. Carol and I have packed to move from Mala's house in Fairfax to Michele's in Arlington. This DC stay has very interesting elements. We'll share them - teser in a wrinkle in our packed time to the quiet writing zone! (That was a reference to two books that we have met that talked about time travel. REad/hear them!
1) A Wrinkle in Time. 2) When You Reach Me)

With lots of love.
It is a sunny happy bright, post rain day that is inviting us out.

Komal