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Saranac Sunset

It's astonishing to think: I've been here a week. Tomorrow Joanna suffers the downside of my cheap air fare: we have to be at the airport at 5am. Thank goodness it's only a fifteen minute drive then!

What have I achieved this week? I've very little to show for my time here, but I feel much better for it.

I've got to know my nephew and niece. I've reconnected with my sister and brother-in-law. I've finally visited the place everyone else in the family has been talking about.

I've survived a week without my Mac, my email, my mobile phone.

I planned to write: a journal, a poem or two, maybe some prose. Instead, I wrote four postcards and read a lot.

But: my thoughts are now clearer on a number of key issues. I'm flying back home full of wonder at how the year will round off, and full of excitement that it might just blow my socks off.