I found this pen in my notebook yesterday, and I have no idea how it got there. I have never seen it before in my life.The other side of the pen reads: www.studyintheuk.org. I have already done that. And it may be pure coincidince, but my time in Wales was such an important time in my life, that I feel like the sudden and inexplicalbe presence of this pen in my life means something.
Maybe it's trying to give me direction. When I was in Wales I was completely confused about myself and my place in the world. I was lost and lonely, but I was accomplishing a goal that I had my entire life. I was living abroad. I was studying abroad. I was traveling to Italy. I was falling in love in a foregin country. So while I was a little lost hobbit on a crazy adventure most of the time, there was such importance and purpose behind my life that in a strange way I felt romantically fulfilled. I could have given Wordsworth a run for his money.
Maybe I'm just supposed to focus on saving for and planning my next trip abroad. Maybe I am supposed to focus on my writing. Maybe I am supposed to work harder at making a career out of my writing.
I have no idea where I am going with this post other than this: a symbol of a very important part of my life has surfaced lately, and I think it is trying to tell me something.
*** "Not all who wander are lost." J.R.R. Tolkein ***
1 comment:
Ok. That is just plain weird.
The store is on Commerce. If your in Cotati going north towards the freeway take the little frontage road instead of getting on the freeway. It is in the green buildings with apartments above them. Soul Buz coffee and a hair cut place is in there with us.
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