lived on vancouver island for a few years - when i was leaving, a sweet lady i knew said i could leave, but the salt air would be forever in my lungs. she said i would crave it and i do. living next to a lake can't hold a candle to that air.
In the late eighties/early nineties, I set up shop in Czechoslovakia. I was quite comfortable and loved my friends, the place, the sheer EXPLOITATION of their innocence...
BUt then I started to go a little haywire. It took me a little while to figure out exactly what the problem was, but eventually I made the connextion that that what the only period of my life when I had lived outside of smelling distance of Salt Water.
I jumped a train to Venice to test my theory, and as soon as I stepped out into that damp salty air, I felt like myself again. Shortly thereafter I returned to the university and thank god i did. I think I only have one or two of the whole gang back then still living.
it's true. there's no beating that smell,taste,feel... once you've got it, you know it. i'm from toronto, used to water, but pretty much land locked. once i got a taste for the coast, well, i cannot deny it's pull.
Yeah, but these kids today...They don't understand "water rationing" even though I work on a tug without watermakers. The level of constant showering/antibacterial soaps &c. scares the fuck out of me. In the 60's people showered a couple of times a week, and washed their hair MAYBE once a week. If they were a gurl. ANd people wonder why my constitution is so formidable and my head of hair is so thick while my "contemporaries" are all bald and weak.
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Re: real "spoiler alert"
Date: 2009-03-29 03:10 am (UTC)i see newfoundland in my future
Date: 2009-03-29 03:29 am (UTC)Re: i see newfoundland in my future
Date: 2009-03-29 03:49 am (UTC)BUt then I started to go a little haywire. It took me a little while to figure out exactly what the problem was, but eventually I made the connextion that that what the only period of my life when I had lived outside of smelling distance of Salt Water.
I jumped a train to Venice to test my theory, and as soon as I stepped out into that damp salty air, I felt like myself again. Shortly thereafter I returned to the university and thank god i did. I think I only have one or two of the whole gang back then still living.
Re: i see newfoundland in my future
Date: 2009-03-29 03:55 am (UTC)victoria can still suck my ass though. :)
no subject
Date: 2009-03-29 03:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-29 04:03 am (UTC)i'm 40 too
Date: 2009-03-29 04:29 am (UTC)where?
Re: real "spoiler alert"
Date: 2009-03-29 03:51 am (UTC)he was so weathered you could smell it.
i miss that smell.
Re: real "spoiler alert"
Date: 2009-03-29 04:06 am (UTC)whiskey in the jar
Date: 2009-03-29 04:27 am (UTC)this is a good thing.
Re: whiskey in the jar
Date: 2009-03-29 04:29 am (UTC)Re: whiskey in the jar
Date: 2009-03-29 04:30 am (UTC)so noted!
Re: whiskey in the jar
Date: 2009-03-29 04:37 am (UTC)