Moving and Grooving

Whoa folks, nothing like many moons to completely change your life. Picked up, packed up, moved across a few state lines and wound up back at the place it all started: home.

We're easing in and feeling our way through this new version of life, rekindling old friendships and scaring up new ones, learning to survive without the Philadelphia Freedom.
We miss Pennypack Farm and the Philadelphia Zoo, High Point Cafe and Lucy and La La. Mostly the zoo is what is on Diego's mind. Everyday he wants to go. This week he got lucky and we went down to visit Leslie and Riley in Lincoln Park. The most depressing zoo, but Diego was thrilled to see his beloved lions, tigers and polar bears. Not to mention the giraffes and camels. Poor things, no wild animals belong in an urban park overlooking Lake Shore Drive but this is out of our realm of control, and the animals seem resigned to their fate.

Thanks to Eddie for taking this mama to see the North Mississippi All Stars at the House of Blues the other night. What a guy...never before have I been so up close and personal with the finer life, above the stage in the box, a stone's throw from these amazing guys who just ooze with soul and life. At first I was like an alien set down in a new land--I practically forgot how to dance--but one Captain and Coke later, I was getttin' down to the fine music these guys throw down and loving it! I could look out into the crowd and get high off the happiness and love in the room...no need for anything more but to listen, dance and feel the joy.