main street museum

the main street museum officially opened last night with javier cintron's print show, scenes from the rio blanco social club. javi, in an amazing fury of output, hung a beautiful show of scenes from white river junction in a mix of media including shredded paper that bernie, the museum cat, loved. don (pictured) and i had a yoga dueling match. i'm not sure what this posture he's in is called, but he claimed victory. the opening became more of a party around eight or nine and people flowed on and off the porch in concert with the intermittent downpours. pizza arrived late.

i took a break at about eight to visit bill and phyllis whom i met at the barra homestead during the homesteading workshop and who arrived in town this afternoon. they're an interesting and fun couple from california touring the states. we shared some soup, conversation, and lots of thoughts about sustainability and life in general. bill has been hiking the pacific coast trail and the appalachian trail the last few years with support from phyllis who's book, grief, climb toward understanding, she promotes as they tour. next time i'm in california i hope to visit them in san luis obispo.

katie montgomery, whom i've known since she was born wrote me earlier in the week and wanted to get together. she's a freshman at dartmouth college, just up the road, so i picked here up and brought her down to white river to see what our scene is like. it was great to catch up with her some. i spent a lot of time with the montgomery family in my twenties and not so much in my thirties as i navigated coming out, relationships, and work. so, it was really great to reconnect with katie and start to get to know her again.

card: ace of discs: becoming involved with nature, prospering, using common sense, trusting