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The daydreams of yesterday lead to today...

...except they didn't.

Partially sunny me:

The day is lovely. And I'm quite fine, thank-you.

But...

No, my daydreams didn't lead here to Montana. They wanted to live in Norway. They wanted to go to school in Wisconsin not Kansas. They wanted a garden...

My geraniums are blooming and I need to deal with bits and pieces (broken off stems and leaves) from jade plants before I travel. If the flowers are watered occasionally while I'm gone I'll have flowers when I come back. The jade plants grow very slowly.

I should be taking advantage of the sunny day.

In Costa Rica one can take the sun for granted. Not here in Spring. In CR it's always hot, warm or mild ...depending on where you are. Rains have their season but temperatures are fairly stable.

It's hard to explain weather to someone who has never experienced it. Kinda like pointing out to white folks that they are NOT being chased out of town. Without that experience the explanations do not seem to lead to understanding. Snow means nothing to a Costa Rican. Privilege (like White Privilege) is the absence of something ...like having to make choices as to what you wear in Springtime or where you can safely live.

It would've been nice to go to U Wisconsin. I had been accepted in the honors program but we had no money. I could've studied biology or switched to geology (I'm better at geology) and gotten a minor in Scandinavian Studies, graduated around the time the North Sea oil fields took off. Moved to Norway. Moved to Vestland. Daydreams...

Reality: I would so like to visit Stavanger this May.

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