Flypaper thoughts somewhere in Tennessee edition

• Fourth day travelling and now in Tennessee
•  One of my favourite states
•  Not sure why but I pick up some quirky thinking in the air
• Driven through snow, ice, sleet and rain
• Driven through mill cities where the factories are now “executive lofts”
•  Driven by so many houses and have wondered about the lives being lived out in them
• What’s for dinner in there?
•  Are you happy with the life decisions you have made?
• Or have you just gone along and realized that doing that was in fact a decision?
• That’s a lot of lawn to be cutting
• Slept a few times in truck stops
• The truckers always have room for someone in an RV who needs to get off the road
•   I am surprised by the number of women driving these rigs
• A lonely life maybe
• But probably good money
• And no supervisor on her way over tell you what you should have done
• No trying to be more pleasant than you feel
• Or not as smart as you know you are
•   Lots of dogs in these trucks too
• Dogs know it’s all a journey
•   No need to know where you are going
• The whole point of travel like this
• Is finding out you can be comfortable anywhere
• Thinking of my neighbour on the other side of the back fence
•  A gardener she always says she could live and die in her backyard
•  Which is probably how it will play out
•  Nice though to realize how big the backyard is
• You relax more when you feel this
• We are in constant contact with home and the family
• Baby pictures on the west coast
•  Son in Texas booking me into see his bodyworks guy
• My daughter keeping me updated
• The next door neighbour doing our mail and the plants
• The man across the street in constant contact with my husband
• Shelley’s getting her pipes done
• When will it be our turn
• The city put in those lines a generation ago
•  Find out what gauge the new pipes are says my husband
• Will do says Barry
• He also writes two days until the full moon
• Temperature dropping by afternoon
•  Will probably stop in Memphis tonight
• RV parking spot under the bridge
• You hear every car bump over every joint in that bridge
• And I sleep in my eyeshade
• Headlights
• Local police meet up there
• Nose staggered to cop car nose
• Discussing Memphis crime
•  And I can get a good night’s sleep through all that
•  And get up fresh the next morning and see what the sewing world has posted to Instagram
• The bodywork guy is going to assess my asymmetries
• Give me some work to do on balance
• Doing a little of that on my own now