I was talking with my parents on the phone the other day and my mother was writing up a new address book, a sometime hobby of hers because she writes in ink and fills it up and, well, things change. My father gives her "flack" about it because he considers himself visionary for writing in pencil; I tell them both I love the chris-crossings out myself, and to keep them. Of course, the comment was that they were crossed out because they were errors or because they died? No, I was thinking of my own entry in typical fashion, and the changes over the last fifteen years based on some degree of internal or external necessity. I wondered if I could name all of the places that I had lived, and started to list them just to prove that I couldn't. At one time, each of those places I called home was as integral to my existence as the food on the plate in front of me or the air in my lungs, and now their particulars, in name and number, had faded into the cross-outs. However, I did pretty well recalling relative to my expectations- and, partially because of the lost particulars, the list sounds as much to me an indication of my times as my equally meandering curriculum vitae:
1. El Dorado Drive, Aurora, Colorado
2. Carson Street, Aurora, Colorado (thanks, mom- almost forgot about that one)
3. 623? Biever Hall, Loyola, New Orleans, Louisiana
5. Some room in McSomething Hall, UNC, Greeley, Colorado
4. suite? Cabra Hall, Loyola, New Orleans, Louisiana
6. 1120 Carrolton St, New Orleans, Louisiana
7. Via Fattori 6, Florence, Italy (didn't remember that one 'till just now)
8. 4648 (or something) Coliseum St, New Orleans, Louisiana
9. 5416 NE 14th St, Portland, Oregon
10. ?? Ferry Lane, Eugene, Oregon
11. 645 G Street, Springfield, Oregon
12. ??? 14th St, #101, Eugene, Oregon
13. 622 SW 9th, 3A, Portland, Oregon
14. Jefferson Street, Brooklyn, New York
Upon reading the list, I don't think it sounds as crazy as it could be. Hopefully, I will spend the next fifteen seeing what I can do about that.
ps- 2007 was awesome, maybe I'll tell you about it sometime.
