bon voyage....

ok, so my daughter brought home a sweet note and gift from my favorite french teacher/traveling companion...by rights we should be going together, with a swarm of middle schoolers.....but in these semi-dangerous times i am taking the smallest of swarms.....a ying/yang combo if ever there was one......i am almost packed.....down to the obsessive looking around for.....can't tell you exactly...but when i find it i'll toss it in the bag.....my bag is far from full....which tempts me to take along my feather pillow that i tried to discard last year but resurrected when it became clear that i could not sleep well without it.....the forecast calls for rain.....at least for saturday.....and cloudly on sunday and monday....i can handle a few clouds.....i cannot recall actually being in paris in sunshine anyway....it might be such a shock as to cause physical damage.....i have a new book to read on the plane...anne lamott's new book about grace.....cannot wait....she is refreshingly irreverent and inclusive for a christian....and that is my kind of woman...a perfect book for visiting my kind of town.......hope to upload pictures on the trip.....this is the digital age, ya know.......