someone, remind me again…why am i leaving?? where did i ever get the idea to leave this place, where i’m only half an hour away from this:
it is so incredibly beautiful here. today mom let me sleep late, then we headed north to the golden gate bridge, muir woods, and the marin headlands. every step we took, the view just seemed to get better and better and better.
at the top of hawk hill in the marin headlands, we overhead two guys talking. one said to the other “look at what you’re leaving behind…” as they gazed out across the bay and toward the bridge and the city. it turns out he’s moving to new york in two weeks to take a new job in magazine publishing. for five minutes, we commiserated about having to leave the bay area; we felt each other’s pain.
going to the beautiful places–the bridge, the redwood forest, the wind-whipped headlands–was a good thing to do the day before i graduate. somehow, it was closure, a good way to say goodbye. goodbye…for now.
