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planning my swift escape

My itchy feet are screaming: "Throw down your chair, take nothing, burst through the doors, head north south east or west, it makes no difference! RUN! RUN!" Work is going to be hard today... "We two--how long we were fool'd!" We two--how long we were fool'd! Now transmuted, we swiftly escape, as Nature escapes; We are Nature--long have we been absent, but now we return; We become plants, leaves, foliage, roots, bark; We are bedded in the ground--we are rocks; We are oaks--we grow in the openings side by side; We browse--we are two among the wild herds, spontaneous as any; We are two fishes swimming in the sea together; We are what the locust blossoms are--we drop scent around the lanes, mornings and evenings; We are also the coarse smut of beasts, vegetables, minerals; 10 We are two predatory hawks--we soar above, and look down; We are two resplendent suns--we it is who balance ourselves, orbic an...

itchy feet

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View from one of my favorite spots in Chicago I love looking up at these skyscrapers, then down at the Chicago River Navy Pier and that monstrosity of a Ferris Wheel! I call it itchy feet: this need to be going; to get on the road, to drive away; to start all over again somewhere new. And yet, each time I start all over again I am exhausted by the actual starting all over again bit. It must be the thrill in the travel I want. And I've got it again, the itchy feet. I'm having a hard time settling and sitting still after 3 weekends in a row of going, and seeing dear friends, and of fun: Massachusetts, Chicago, Michigan. This morning we begin week 5 of Summer Reading, OVER the HALFWAY mark and we're excited about that. And everyone's tired. And I'm sitting here suffering from itchy feet, my mind wandering back to the places I've been lately and I am dreaming of more time in Chicago in particular...*sigh*