Gearing Up

by | Jul 27, 2010 | 0 comments

Another package has arrived for me. I remember when packages were fun to receive. This one is from Switzerland and contains your wedding ring, wallet, and maybe your iphone Dan.

I am preparing as best as I can to open it- it sits beside me now on the bed. A good friend is here to be with me.
Was just thinking how everything feels so switched. Even as I talk to people here and walk around here, I feel I’m in the land of the dead- and you’re in the land of the living.

JAC

July 27, 2010
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