I am in preparation mode for leaving and putting off the most difficult preparation for the last. Of course, family is arriving today tomorrow and Saturday to compress my time even more before I set out on Feb 6 for Germany. I will go to Frankfurt first and from there to Vallauris. I have had the strange panicky paranoid feeling every time I try to log on to the Vallauis site that it is all a mirage or some cruel art hoax. I keep forgetting the website's name and get other websites about Vallauris. I google earthed the address and the street view was of an abandoned ruin next to a shabby casino. When I finally entered the correct address I was relieved to see the charming Lispinard Place. Family converging here to meet with my sister from Turkey, who will be in the States for a week with her children. I have no time to think and so I am checking off my list all I have to do before leaving. A list made over the last few weeks and doodled over with sketches. I am excited and scared and anticipating and dreading all at once. The dread is the time away and worry that New York will just not be able to function without me.
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
I am in preparation mode for leaving and putting off the most difficult preparation for the last. Of course, family is arriving today tomorrow and Saturday to compress my time even more before I set out on Feb 6 for Germany. I will go to Frankfurt first and from there to Vallauris. I have had the strange panicky paranoid feeling every time I try to log on to the Vallauis site that it is all a mirage or some cruel art hoax. I keep forgetting the website's name and get other websites about Vallauris. I google earthed the address and the street view was of an abandoned ruin next to a shabby casino. When I finally entered the correct address I was relieved to see the charming Lispinard Place. Family converging here to meet with my sister from Turkey, who will be in the States for a week with her children. I have no time to think and so I am checking off my list all I have to do before leaving. A list made over the last few weeks and doodled over with sketches. I am excited and scared and anticipating and dreading all at once. The dread is the time away and worry that New York will just not be able to function without me.