colin reports from north carolina

he proclaims a love for heat and humidity

feels like bathing in air   he writes   like dessert

i suppose it feels like home   he grew up there

a touchstone

it is true 

this napa valley air is dry by comparison

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marketa is at home in the city   

colin's grandfather and i are here

in the dry   and in my mind   lovely   air

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i have my work spread out on the dinning room table

since it's just the two of us

we eat in the kitchen   we   the unlikely couple

i can't remember being so calm in my head

so content in my body

something about this place is utterly pacifying

proximity to the pacific

no doubt

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keep the world at bay

this lifestyle makes sense 

knowing that this is not a lifestyle

it is the result of clear and calculated decisions

built stone by stone   vine by vine

i've stepped into colin's grandfather's end game

his foresight

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we sit on the patio after dinner

watching the sun set

a little later   in the den

i play my guitar

instead of putting on one of his vinyls

the nerve of me 

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were colin and marketa here

i wouldn't do it

it's a beautiful kind of intimacy we share