First song I played when I got the Bluetooth working in the van. Playful, succulent, shimmering, sexy. A song of silliness and swelling joy.
And that’s what I felt, driving down The Lane* after a brief spin with Kru, so she could enjoy sitting at the prow of the ship, confirming that this much bigger white metal box also brings you to nice places where you can run and sniff.
And so that I could think of the myriad versions of me that have walked that lane through so many years and so many feelings, so many prayers and so many healings. I thanked them all aloud as we float-rumbled along on Terje’s bouncy synthy beats 🫧🎹🌈
I brought the campervan home yesterday, I am zombified today. 5am start with a cross-country-trip to Dublin, a Teddy Play in a special school in Clontarf**, a brief nap in a friend’s house, then across the city to get this baysht ⬆️ (slightly overcooked Irish pronunciation for beast), and then figure out how to drive it on the way back to Sligo... which took 3hrs. It actually wasn’t that hard to drive, it was really fun. The massive windscreen, propped up van-high, a vista all full of greenest-green new summer leaves and undergrowth like verdant bath suds bubbling up and out all along the sides of the roads.
I took these for myself to remember the trip home. I had pulled in for salty vinegary chips, a quintessentially Irish on-the-road treat.
Pottling/staggering around trying to fix for bed and I kept catching the little smiley headlights looking in at me, waiting for the next adventure.
* The Lane... a small countryside road that I've walked so much for so many years that it's a part of me and me of it. I must write that story for the homepage about the willow staff that the lane gifted me during a storm many years ago and how it went on to be a part of so many other amazing unfoldings.
** Funded by the good folks at Axis Ballymun. Teddy Play itself could not have existed without the support of the Hawk's Well Theatre Sligo, a theatre I used to visit when I was a Dublin city kiddo visiting with my Godmother who did sets for a local drama group!