Chicago, Part 1

Porch view (click photo to enlarge)

Sitting here in this room at J and S’s, and they have gone to bed as S stayed an extra night and is leaving for her trial early in the morning. Tonight will be the last time that they see each other for about a month, and I wonder how they do it. I used to flip out at G going away for a weekend! Outside I was staring over the sky that is dark now, but this afternoon had the most brilliant sunset. J called us outside just to witness it. We probably should have headed up to the roof.

Anyway. The last time I was in this room was during the visit here with Robert in July, and G and I slept together here on the futon where I sit writing. I wonder if a little of the spirit that I have always loved about her is not still swarming about. I hope tomorrow that fearless spirit still remains with me.

Traveler before trip (click photo to enlarge)

It is cold in the city, but not really any colder than it was in Atlanta. However, it feels colder here, like the city is anticipating the coming cold. You can see it in the faces of the people and feel it in the air, just like you could feel the anticipation of Spring and warmth when G and I were here after my birthday in March. We are so spoiled with weather in Atlanta. We don’t have this anticipation and longing for climatic change.
Out tonight to a pub dinner at a place I believe we all have been to before. A burger and fries that I could not have fully eaten two months ago (it is coming up on two months?). I am restless tonight and don’t really know what to do now that they have gone to bed. I was told to stay up and make myself at home, but I felt the need to retreat, or to go out howling through the city. So retreat I did into this room to write, watch a movie maybe, read, and apprehensively see what tomorrow brings. Good things will come eventually and/or to those who wait…