Had a lovely day yesterday. Met Linda Durham, from Santa Fe, one of the three of us for the writing workshop — she’s going to be in Slovenia for a month. We had late coffee at my place on the river (because I didn’t wake up until late morning — along with other things I find I forgot, like my back belt, I also forgot the NoJetLag, both missed greatly), then walked up the street to the funicular up to the castle. Not much castle left, but it has become a cultural, arts, etc center for Ljubljana residents and a museum, which we didn’t see. Ambled back to Macek, where we parted, she to go to her hotel to write and me to go upstairs to go back to sleep. We met again for wine, then dinner. We had black wine by the river and then went back to the restaurant I had been to last night, where we had orange wine — white wine made in the way of red wine, quite wonderful. Another meal, the same thing I had the night before because I loved it so much. Yummmm. I think I might be able to live on carpaccio. And the occasional donut, of course. It was such a lovely day, beautiful autumn day, soft evening. We’re in the pedestrian zone, no cars, people walk along the river, sit at outside bars and coffee shops, drink and laugh, such pleasure being apart of it just by being. And what a pleasure meeting Linda! She’s here working on her memoir manuscript. I’m here to finalize my book of poetry that will be published, I hope, by Christmas. Please, feel free to get your orders in for Christmas — or New Years — presents now!
So, I guess I’ve avoided enough and must get to packing. Laird packed my suitcase so tight with everything I insisted I take that there is no wiggle room. So I’ll have to be as neat about repacking. Of course I brought all the wrong clothes! Or at least not enough of summer clothes and too many of colder. Maybe when we get to our eventual destination it will be cooler and I will be happy I brought them. Sure hope so. As will everyone else who will see me in the same two pairs of pants and t-shirts if it doesn’t get cooler.
If you haven’t already thought you wanted to come to Slovenia, google it — it is a lovely, lovely place to be! Happily yours, jm
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