Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Listening In



The entire day I spend doing last minuted details including applying for a couple of Santa Rosa Junior College jobs. Anna's friend Eva had arrived from Alaska with a San Francisco friend, Casey, just a half hour before I left. I had already said my goodbyes to Truckee and Joey. Donna and I had a sweet dinner at a little Italian restaurant in San Rafael on the way to the airport. She dropped me off at the airport a good 2 hours before the scheduled 10:25 PM flight. I had the privilege of a random frisking- he actually called it a free massage courtesy of homeland security. I compared my home printed boarding pass with the one that I got at the airport. My new flight time was 11:25 PM. At 11:25 finally the plane came in, soon followed by an ominous announcement- "We have having some mechanical difficulties with the plane..."
American Airlines then switched gates and issued all new boarding passes. Most people were calm and polite, but a few freaking in their own way. One guy, maybe 30, spoke greatly amplified to everyone that looked at him. His partner would come over, they would argue a little and she would walk away. She came back tried to put her hand over his mouth, but it wouldn't stop. They eventually booked a different flight with Jet Blue. Finally the plane took off at 1 AM.

Five hours and four hours of sleep later we landed uneventfully. Waiting for the train I heard a gentleman say to another- apparently a stranger, "Where do you live?" He answers with a slight hispanic accent, "I don't have a place to live. I am only home for a couple weeks a year. I stay with friends." "What do you do?" "I give one week workshops all over the world. I travel a lot. I just came back from South Africa and Brazil before that. I teach people about destiny, try to get them in touch with who they are.... You know destiny is a different concept to Hispanics..."

I took the subway into the city. A young lovely black woman sat down across from me. Then a pilot asked her if he could sit next to her. She had a broad warm smile. He hard had emotion as he talked, but they were hitting it off well. I didn't here a word but her expressions were full of joyous emotion as she gesticulated when she talked. She would react with a charming facial expression with each comment of his. It was great to watch her.

I now sit in my little room in the Pod Hotel. More later.

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