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Days go by

The last few weeks have been in-tense! Chicago, San Francisco and Seattle - it's been everything at once, and it's hard to parse everything out and try to make sense of all the pieces. It feels like it's all coming together though and that feels amazing.

Cecilie is on an A340 tomorrow from Copenhagen, flying more than a third of the way around the world and finally landing here to stay for a while. She's closed off her projects in Denmark and with any luck will be reporting on the US election here for the Danish media (if not the election, she has a few other projects lined up). We're going to hole up in the Salish lodge for a couple days over Christmas just to get away from everything. You Twin Peaks fans out there will know the Salish Lodge as "The Great Northern," the lodge where Agent Cooper stayed while he was investigating the town. It's going to be great!

Hannah told me she just landed her dream job a couple of days ago, as a director for a large international NGO based in the US. It's going to mean working on larger-impact projects in the US than she's done before, with the occasional trips out to international donor-funded projects. I'm thrilled - it's what you'd wanted, Hannah.

Jeremy, Diana and Paloma are heading off to Switzerland, following the dream they've had for a while to live in Europe (or in Diana's case to live in Europe again).

And I just landed what seems like a dream job too - can't talk about it publicly yet because of NDAs, but it's a global strategic role that should have a much larger footprint than I'd had before, and more of a public communications focus. A bit more travel than before, which is fine. And it's working with people I know and like.

And... and... I am so digging living in Cap Hill Seattle. I've been out to three live shows in the last couple of weeks, all in venues that are easy walking distance from my apartment. I didn't realize how much I've missed having good places around where you can just go out and see some fun local act, as opposed to having to hold off and see just the megaconcerts. Saw Voxtrot/Tullycraft, Tullycraft/Rachel Flotard, and Shonen Knife so far - they've all been a lot of fun.

At the Tullycraft show last night a light fixture blew during the opening act and set part of the backstage on fire, but it felt like it was part of the show. They put the fire out, the crowd cheered, and the show rolled on like nothing happened.

Even something super-domestic like getting watches repaired has turned into some kind of scene from a film lately. I dropped off some watches that needed new batteries at a little retro-kitsch shop I found down the street. When I showed up a few days later to pick them up, the owners were having an impromptu party with some regular customers and we all hung out chatting and drinking some good vino they'd uncorked.

Everything about these days feels magical . Like it's all coming up roses finally. I feel lucky, and very grateful for all of this. And for all of you. We're all flying forward through time together.

Posted by case at December 21, 2007 10:16 PM