To Germany

On a spring day in Halifax, I sit on my back porch with my cat nearby
my to-do list is long but most of it is checked off
I have left the funnest things for the last minute
which is unusual
how great that today, instead of booking airplane tickets and shuffling papers, I, instead, get to go buy a german phrasebook
and a novel for bookclub
I will bring these things on the plane
I am to Germany! In a few hours!

Oh, but I have not packed yet. Oops.

My motorcyle is running and insured and in my driveway. It looks really good and sounds reasonable. I am in love with it.
My bicycle also looks good and I am in love with that, too.
I am in love with a lot of things.
I have spring fever
Or else it is always this way. I think it is always this way.

In Germany I will drink too much beer. 
Well, too much if measured against glasses of fresh squeezed juice, which I will probably not consumme enough of.
But just the right amount of beer for flavour and light-headedness after shows and curiosity for new flavours.
i will also eat too much cake!

At a superduper dinner party the other night a friend said the Germans are good at cake.

I will also be to Denmark for one day and Iceland for one day and England for 7 days. 

Every time I write a blog post I do so in a spastic hyper mood and I don’t know what to focus on, so I end up writing a list
Here is my list for today:

Gratitude for – 
people
7 second (or longer) hugs
flirting
the strangers I haven’t met yet
the opportunity to be Halifax’s poet laureate
the chance to say goodbye
the vegetables I recently ate (may you sustain me through beer and cake, vegetables!)
dates
when Halifax says things out loud, when Canada says things out loud
political agitators
boat-rockers
lovers
dance parties

Hey, Germany, will you dance with me?!
because on friday there is a house party in Halifax where friends and lovers of mine will celebrate and move and grind
and they’ll all be having a time
and, sadly, I will miss it
but the thing is
with this touring business
i pick up other adventures in the places I visit
but on this coming friday night
if I do feel listless
will you grab my waist and grip my hips
and spin me
shake with me on a floor
make me forget the reasons we are here for
or else remember them
it’s for love, yes?

yes.

xo
t