Dear Elphaba

Dear Elphie,

My little green bubble. We have had many good times together u and i. We have traveled to two different MWMF together, we have driven to Denver many a time, and up and down the mountain canyon. We have seen from Colorado to Washington DC and many stops along the way. We have seen friends, lovers, acquaintances, and people I honestly don't like very much between your walls. We have been through oil changes, and wiper exchanges and that popped tire that one time. There has been the crack in the windshield that has grown so ever bigger. You have made me friends and probably enemies with your outrageously gay stickers for peace, justice, and equality. Sadly I feel our time coming to an end-dwindling and idling by. You see we were once so happy together but now in the days ahead of driving up and down a mountain you are no longer the kind of bubble i need. you see elphie i need reliability, the kind that can only come with four wheel drive, I need a back window wiper for the icy snow days ahead. I need anti- skid protection, and if possible heated seats. I love you elphie my dear bubble with 50 mpg gas mileage and 6 disc cd changer. I love so many things about you, but sadly you are no longer what I need. I wish I could keep you but alas my budget and my heart cannot stand the strain of two relationships fighting for my heart and attention. So I have to say goodbye Elphie you will be missed, you are my baby, my freedom, my pleasure and my love. But it is on to new and different things something like a Subaru Outback wagon perhaps-a girl can dream you know.

Take care Elphie and stay calm like you always do,
Kathryn

for my sanity...

i sometimes question living in the mountains on days like today. I am snowed in up here...again. Not going to be able to make it to school-I am currently in the process of finding a more weather friendly vehicle-like a Subaru Outback or another four wheel drive car so that I can make it down to school. I love my life in the mountains, i don't want it to change. Can't afford to change it currently-it takes a lot of capital (loans etc) to start up somewhere new, alone, especially in a city. And I know some people have the financial meas to achieve this but I just don't. And I love my life. I love that I woke up this morning to a herd of elk outside my window-I had no idea I was in for hazardous weather conditions. It just stinks-I love school and I love the mountains. I feel it is not too much to ask to have both at the same time. I take this time to write and read while the snow falls lightly but ever s steadily outside...I know I can give up and call it quite I just don't know what good this really does anyone. I don't like missing school, I know my professors do not particularly like to have a student who misses class especially in graduate school where the climate is mediated by the discussion and vice versa. But I am a good student, passionate about my work, and learning to do that work through the University of Denver and the HCOM department. It is better than I could have expected. Dr. Calafell-wow! She is so smart and yet understated at the same time, I love that she questions and admits she has to read things bunches of times before getting them. That's real. And the whole department-their commitment to the now and doing things that really matter here and now-that's the kind of life I really love and admire. So with that I will "get back to work" and enjoy the fact that my here and now happens to be snowed in on a mountain.

I love this song...

I gThis is kind of my life right now...I love it!!

"Where I Go" Natalie Merchant

Climbing under
A barbed wire fence
By the railroad ties

Climbing over
The old stone wall
I'm bound for the riverside

Well, I go over to the river
To soothe my mind
To ponder over
The crazy days of my life
Just sit and watch the river flow

Find a place
On the riverbank
Where the green rushes grow
See the wind
In the willow tree
In the branches hanging low

Well, I go to the river
To soothe my mind
To ponder over
The crazy days of my life
Watch the river flow
Ease my mind and soul
Where I go

Well I will go to the river
From time to time
Wander over
These crazy days in my mind
Watch the river flow
Where the willow branches grow
By the cool rolling waters
Moving gracefully and slow

O, child it's lovely
Let the river take it all away
The mad pace and the hurry
The troubles and the worries
Just let the river take them all away
Flow away

http://mog.com/music/Natalie_Merchant/Tigerlily/Where_I_Go

the only clip I could find and it is only a link and 30 seconds-but it's worth it