Hi Jeff & Rebecca!
August 7, 2007
Yesterday I was riding on the back of our scooter with David piloting (yes, we finally got wheels!) and the phone rang. This in itself is a very odd sentence, but since the advent of go-phones I guess it’s not all that odd…just novel!
So, the phone rang, and it had a funny number in the display that started with 44. Hmm, I thought, 44…London? Yes, it was our friend Jeff from Terlingua calling us here in Hawai’i from London, where he and Rebecca are right now. Or were yesterday. From what I understand, they were then headed to France for Rebecca’s friend’s wedding; and then they’ll be house-sitting there for a bit.
The fact that I was on the phone on the back of a scooter in Hawai’i talking to someone in London was just this huge technology moment for me. Wow! And that we had just concluded a few days’ internet work in a treehouse; four of us at one point lined up at Brent’s www.brent.fm uberdesk, hooked into satellite typing away…and that we were about to pull up into Jim & Colleen’s driveway for a visit and to help work on their up-coming podcast http://optimismisaskill.wordpress.com … it became an even huger technology moment, and I’m still standing amazed at the world in which we live.
So…hi Jeff & Rebecca! We miss you so much! And Mark & LBG too…and Ally…and Sandy… and Clay, Cassady, Carl, Stan, Mindy…there is a huge list of folks who need a “hello”. Know that we are both sitting in a treehouse in Hawai’i thinking of you, and that thought and prayer move at lightning speed, even faster than the internet. Once I invent teleportation, we can visit everybody a lot more often.
About the promised picture update:
I left all of the pix discs at home, where we have not been for well over a week. You know the term “couch surfing”? Well, we haven’t been doing that exactly, because there is no couch up in the treehouse, and Jim & Colleen always lend us their guestroom. Haven’t had a change of clothes in about as long, either…whatever life is supposed to be exactly, we are sure living it vigorously. Odiferously, perhaps; but vigorously in any event!
