5 years!

Five years ago, while in New York for grad school, Craig's sister Amy gave me her OJ and asked that I take this for her. they were driving back to Lancaster, PA and it had been in her car. I said sure.

I brought it home with me and put it in my freezer. She asked that I take it for her, or something to that effect. She did not ask that I throw it out. It was, and still is my intent to return it to her.

We exchanged some emails recently and I mentioned I still had it. She did not believe me. Hence the above photo! Still in my freezer with kidnapper's evidence of a current newspaper.

It has turned dark, and has evaporated some. I even have the straw. Every time I think of throwing it away, I just can't.

Yeah, that is me. A whacked collector!

From a tiny seed. . .

I got a bunch of packets of sunflower seeds from Alison, she who is now in London as mentioned in a previous post! She used them as a promo a few years back and was not packing them for her move across the pond. They were seeds packed for planting in 2004. I figured what the hell! I will throw them in the ground and if they grow, great, if not, nothing lost!

Well grow they did! From a humble little sunflower seed, not anything more than one you would snack on, grew giant sunflowers! The first has finally bloomed! I am 6' tall, and these giants are at least 8 or nine feet tall!

Nature is a wonderfully amazing thing!

:*(

My dear and immensely talentd friend Alison left for London yesterday. With a hugely heavy heart, I saw her off on her amazing journey to London to hit the London stage in the next chapter of her life and career!

She will only be gone for 6 months, that is what I tell myself! Hopefully they will see her for all the talents she has and she will have to stay longer and be their latest discovery in the theatre world. Even if you do not know her, wish her well if for no other reason because she is and has been one of my best freinds!

Love you!