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Dec 11

Panama Digest Part Deux

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From the balcony at Luna's

Happy Solstice everyone! I reeeeeally reaaaally reaaally want to talk about what’s going on right now, but I’m a charming, sweet and lovely lady of my word so I’ll carry on with ye old Panama Update. I’m going to have to figure out how to either slow down time, or be less awesome in the future, because we’re weeks behind on real time now and I’m already onto new things that I’d like to talk about. C’est la vie. Let’s do this.

So, when we left off, we dropped the super eccentric Linda at the airport to fly back to Georgia for the holidays. I still had 7 days in Panama City to play around with, so I headed over to the enchanted Luna’s Castle to see what was up with the whole staying in a hostel thing.

I don’t know about you, but when I was young, I dreamed about backpacking around the world, staying in hostels, and lying around in hammocks all the live long day. But I never did it, until I took this year off. That’s what this year is about folks, making dreams come true.

Like most dreams and fantasies, it was everything and nothing like I imagined it would be. In a nutshell, it was:

  • communal living
  • falling in love every four hours
  • meeting fantastic people
  • taking fantastic spur of the moment trips to tropical island raves where bonding with said fantastic people took place
  • too short
  • exhausting
  • warm
  • rainy
  • beautiful
I know that’s a cruddy nutshell telling of the tale, but hopefully we can loop back around to it later in this year. Maybe something will make it relevant to tell a tale from the journey. We will see.

I’m realizing every day that this year off, isn’t really a year off in the truest sense of the word. I’m not relaxing for months at a time. I still have a few responsibilities. But I took off for a year. I quit my old life. And I did it for the same reason that most people do it, to find myself, to understand who I am and what I need to do in this crazy world.

It’s more about doing the most with the hand I’ve been dealt, exploring the land around me (wherever that may be), growth, understanding, realizing my dreams, developing my vegan food blog, and love. Mostly about love. I’ll wake up every day just to fall in love with every moment of it. If it turns out that I’ve missed the point, I’m okay with that.

So, I’ve found Chicago. It was right under my nose the whole time. I’ll be here for a few months this winter taking classes at The Second City and learning how to make people laugh. It has one of the best online colleges for clowns and misc. jokers, but I decided to do the whole thing in person. While I’m here, I’ve been hanging out with an amazing Chicago comic artist and catching up with some old friends. I hope you all have some amazing and relaxing holidays. See you next week!

 

 

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