I love Alexandria, I also love the city of Baltimore. Who could blame me? They are both incredibly charming places with offerings of their own unique sort. In Baltimore I can walk around Alex's neighborhood, we can go to the Shnapp Shop and pick up a bottle of Champagne. In Alexandria there is the widest variety of everything imaginable, people of every ethnicity, a store for every interest. I need to narrow my scope for me to grow personally, and professionally. It's possible that the broadness of my search is hindering my progress. My job search has not been intense because I am still recovering from failing out of my teaching program. I feel that psychologically I have progressed a lot in the past 3 years since graduating college, but I have not established myself or attained many new skills. I have a wealth of stories and knowledge about a lot of cities. I can tell you a lot about a lot of places. That would be useful if I were paid to be a travel writer. But right now, this wannabe travel writer has stumbled into a stale mate.
Here is a poem by Tracy K. Smith.
The Good Life
When some people talk about money
They speak as if it were a mysterious lover
Who went out to buy milk and never
Came back, and it makes me nostalgic
For the years I lived on coffee and bread,
Hungry all the time, walking to work on payday
Like a woman journeying for water
From a village without a well, then living
One or two nights like everyone else
On roast chicken and red wine.
this poem is a accurate description of my lifestyle right now. I must admit though, I love coffee and bread. Happy Monday!
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