Escape

I want to get away.
That's all,
Just gone,
Away from silent nightmares, loud cities,
Glass love-
Away.
Any place will do: Kansas, Africa, anywhere...
Quiet clean air, that's important:
To feel the sun, touch truth,
breathe God and music.
No sorrow-I have sorrowed long enough;
Cringed and wept.
Time now to sleep and smile.
No fight-
I have fought long enough;
Crawled and chewed.
Time now to drink some peace,
Luke-warm in a sanitary cup,
Not cracked or chipped-
All holy and well-made.

My best friend and I are celebrating our 50Th birthday this year.... May..our birthdays are one week to the day apart..I'm older and she doesn't let me live that down. We have celebrated our birthdays since we were 15 years old. Our mothers would bake our cakes and put both our names on them ... for the past several years we would just take a couple of days and go "shopping" in Memphis...this year is going to be special.

We wanted to go some place very special, exotic, enchanting, with beaches, etc. We first looked at cruises to the Caribbean..to expensive...then we looked at south Florida...too dangerous.. then we thought about Las Vegas...too sinful..So we decided on Charleston SC...my home away from home. She had been several times but only for a day. I lived there 9 years. And we have promised each other for years we would make this trip together. Ta Da..our 50Th Birthday trip is booked we will leave paradise on August 4 and return to paradise on August 11!!!! 7 whole days of beach, good seafood, relaxing walks on the cobblestone streets of the most enchanting city in the US. I can't wait!!

Now, you must be asking yourself..What about Gary and Maria? Good question. Maria is going to stay behind and hold down the fort (Dustbuster's) and Gary is going to do what Gary loves to do more than anything in the world.......nothing! He won't have me here with a "honey-do list", or nagging about something some one has done or didn't do, or the phone ringing a hundred times during his favorite program ( no one calls when I'm not here) sad but true, or snoring so loud I wake him in the night telling me to roll over:) So he will be in paradise.

He will miss me so bad by day 1, it won't be funny. And I will miss him by day 8, it won't be funny:) just kidding. I know it will be good for me to just get away for a few days, I want to go to Magnolia Gardens where there are 5 trees planted in memory of my son Chad. I love to go and see how big they have grown. I can't wait to have lunch at my favorite resturant Hyman's Seafood were I always order the same dish for the past 27 years...3 dozen raw oysters, and their famous she-crab soup... my mouth is watering.