Ah, My People...

Today, I went to hang out with two women from Grand Rapids Women's Choir... Janice lives near Big Rapids, and Cheryl lives in Lansing, but they go back and forth a lot to spend time together. Janice has a sweet A frame house on some beautiful partly-wooded, partly marshy land... with a little pond and streams running through. She has little resting spots and occasional benches or tables here and there, and the trails marked with stone cairns. We hung out in the skylighted house and talked and drank coffee... went for a really nice walk in the gorgeous sunny day with her dog, Tenor. Janice found a small skull of some creature with pointy canine teeth... possibly a coyote or bobcat... they're going to take it to a friend who is a vet to see if she can I.D. it. It was cool, tho. Came back for more conversation and then went out for Mexican food for dinner in town. They came over for a little while afterwards to see the guitar I'd built.

Very nice women...and lovely to spend time among my own kind... women-centered-women who sing, are feminists, enjoy each other and dogs and nature and value diversity... it's funny how you don't realize how hard you're working to fit in somewhere that doesn't fit until you are finally with people who don't expect or require that of you. It felt really good to relax with these fine women and I hope to spend more time with them.