Mar 3, 2010 1:25am I am safe on the ground....it is 8am here! No sleep yet! Heading to the "boarding house"---R is real mensch....i love him!!!! Kisses........... Luv your kit

Mar 3, 2010 3:13am sitting at a dutch truckstop alone with my future brother in law's older brother Arie (your age I think) drinking outstanding coffee waiting for A and R--trying to break thru the language barrier! i should have taken a refresher? Not to mention throw a few euros in my pocket. He graciously bought me multiple  much over due much desired much needed cups of coffee, and best he paid for me to use the WC (to pee)!

 

Mar 3, 2010 5:41am Still awake. just had a lively coffee session with "Kitty" the owner of the most beautiful "boarding house" in the world (A worried for naught and is now apologizing to R for complaining) and Arie (R's brother who is your age) and R and A.

 

 

Kitty has a house cat named "Tutu" who joined us as well.

 

 

Now going to bathe and the go "into the city" to pick up some necessities, then (thank God!) dinner and drinks. Kitty, who has travelled quite a lot suggests we stay up until normal bedtime....to ward off jet lag.

Kitty is the widow of a man that was a colleague of my father's from Erasmus University--who was among other amazing things things a beekeeper (hence producer and distributor of all things bee--honey, bee pollen, etc.)in Chile.

R has been renting a small room (with a hot plate and small "kitchen" sink), and a room for his linrary, for 14 years. For A, he has now additionally secured 2 large rooms to live in until they find a house--which may be delayed as this is cleary sufficient. I have been put in an attached, teeny tiny room--with a veranda. There is a glimmering pond across the small street. Truly, a room with a view.

 

Wish you were here.

N

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Mar 3, 2010 7:20am Still or sparkling? This is what the waiter asked me—my water order. I was trying to be thrifty. I forgot that you pay for water here.

Our love is easy…like water rushing over stones. Our love is easy. Like no love I’ve ever known.

N

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Mar 3, 2010 7:48 AM Dose Dutchies! Glad you made it OK.

Love,

D

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Mar 3, 2010 8:05 AM I need more than that--write me a longer email soon--i am crying now----i am going thru big time withdrawal and i don’t get to go to bed for hours and hours!!! We are dt rotterdam!!!! Damn!!! Please write asap!

 I'd like to have you 'round just for a rainy day. i like the touch of your hand...

Mar 3, 2010 8:13 AM Morning has broken................

I missed you last night, the bed is cold and lonely without you.

When I am with you...my whole world stands still...you are my one and only thrill.

Your loving husband,

D

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Mar 3, 2010 10:15am Dying in a bookstore (I am not the young one I used to be!). Looking at books in Dutch and nearly falling off the step stool from sheer exhaustion, thirst and hunger--that i am sitting on --and am lucky to have--while A & R search for yoga and spiritual books....

Ok leaving to go to pet store and "green" market--them dinner???????

Mar 3, 2010 2:16 PM OK yeah! just sat down in a fairly decent bar with soft velvet seats and wine is now flowing.......feeling much better...although the food ended up being papadam, and total meat plate, which I found fairly inedible despite having eaten next to nothing all day.

 

At the Hema, we bought wine and wine glasses to (as R said) to "christen" the apartment and make it their own---so back from the bar we are listening to Nina Simone and drinking more wine and discussing how we are incapable of offending each other via our potentially disparate views of life, chinese traditional medicine, and everything..... because we are (as we have decided to name you as well) "intellectuals". So basically we have spent the entire evening reaffirming or maybe even reinventing "the intellectual"....

 

N

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Mar 3, 2010 2:45pm I am a psuedo-intellectual; thusly appellated, I am immune to any and all criticism. I hope you're getting some post-christening rest.
Love you,

D

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Mar 4, 2010 10:02am After i told you i was getting up (we stayed up late last night drink wine and eating oriental crackers), i took a shower and have been sitting in the big main room of the "flat" they are renting with bluey on my lap, reading "an education" which is fabulous and a must read for you.

Still no real food to speak of, and worse—no coffee yet today. It must be near dinner time here? no clue what time it "really" is.

N

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Mar 4, 2010 10:03am You tell the Dutch cult that if they don't feed you soon, I'm going to fly over there and get busy with my wooden shoes!

D

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Mar 4, 2010 10:37am We are in the car driving round about as many one ways and traffic--freezing cold rainy (as better remembered from before) --bicyclists are out anyway in droves-yesterday was warm and beautiful and sunny-you can unofficially park now both ways on either side of street--as there has been an auto explosion over the years.

Apparently we must forgo eating until after a stop at pet store--which closes soon.

OK we have stopped in front of a pet shop in North Rotterdam which has for ages been held primarily be the turkish community.

R is amazing--i think you would truly appreciate and enjoy him. I am glad i came if ONLY to learn/experience the man who will (of course one expects this) be caring for her for the rest of their lives. He is very mature and like you --has been managing life successfully wholly on his own--

Reading an education (Lynn Barber) makes me want to write (for real)--despite the apparent hullabaloo with the natives--i am getting clarity through all of it. You apparently have "known" (on so many fronts) all along and must think me slow-witted. It is only that I have been so long (stubborn of me, even selfish  really)  determined to believe in the fairy tale-side of things --and yet not willing to see the entire spectrum....i suppose thinking the risk would that i might  become a cynic--which I refuse to do--y'know.

OK now sitting alone a freezing cold car....not even hungry at this point.

 

deep within your heart, you know it's plain to see...like Adam was to Eve...you were made for me...

xxoo

N

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Mar 4, 2010 12:40pm After pushing through the dark, the wind and the rain I am finally eating! Delicious erwetensoep (pea soup) and saucijzenbroodje (sausage rolls)

 

 

(omg you would love them--basically common and everyday food here--ground sausage in pastry--like perogies)--and fantastiche coffee!!!!!! We are eating at the Hema which is like eating at Ikea. I decided to sit and keep reading and have another cup o coffee while they shop.  They don't have "to go" here, so if you want another coffee--you have to sit and drink it! Can u imagine??

It is obvious, nest p'as....You are wonderful & I miss you horribly. Au revoir...

Our love is easy.

N