Seeds On the Wind

Thank you, Spirit, for a warm place to stay here. Thank you for my awesome friends. Thank you for this coastal life that revolves around friends and outdoors and health and good times. I'm very lucky to have stumbled into this. Thank you for a chance at the perfect job in Tofino. Thank you for Carrie, a good friend who will be in Tofino all winter. Thank you for Serina, and our wine-on-the-couch sessions. Thank you for the garden in the backyard. Thank you for Lennie, who I've known for so long now, and Jimmy and Jordan and all the solid guys. Thank you for Sarah and Carolyn and Denise and Serena Rotter and for Bev in Vancouver and Michelle in Revy. Thank you for Mum and Fred and Tess and Eleanore and Margaret and Tim and Gran. And Simon and Becca. And Dad and Liza. Thank you for the line of work I fell into this summer, and for new direction that will give me solidity.

I've got this dandelion, and I'm sending the seeds out on the wind.

I want to live in Tofino, and work for the Raincoast Education Society. I want to be there, right in the fog and firs and rain and surf. I want to surf, and take long walks on winter beaches, and wear toques and gumboots, and ride my single-speed around, and my longboard. I want to hang out in the coffeeshops and bakeries, and go to all the good shows that come through, and be a local for the next Grey Whale Festival. I want to get a sea kayak, and go kayaking all the time in Clayoquot.

I want to put down roots. I want to live in one place, the transient moving over and done with. I really want to grow a garden. Plant garlic this October, and be there to harvest it in August. Plant herbs. Follow the Cortes Island growing guide. I want to have my own cat.

I really want to live in my own little cabin in the woods, near the ocean. No roommates. Just me, and my garden, and the wild. Somewhere for my soul to stretch out. Quiet, and close to Tofino. Easy biking distance. I would write and do artwork and work on this blog. Cook good food and bake bread. This is what I want. To live a solid, down-to-earth life in Tofino. Mixed with the adventure of the ocean.

So I'm sending it out on the wind.