{"id":15498,"date":"2010-08-12T06:01:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-12T10:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/hameblog\/2010\/08\/12\/no-baggage-on-this-trip\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T07:50:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T10:50:17","slug":"no-baggage-on-this-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/2010\/08\/12\/no-baggage-on-this-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"No baggage on this trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in Toronto and having a great, relaxed time. I&#8217;m eating in great local restaurants, seeing big dumb summer movies with friends (cinemas! we don&#8217;t have those in Wick), and being totally, utterly, absolutely in love with the people I work with.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s great to work directly with the team members at my client&#8217;s office, and to quickly turn around jobs by collaborating right there and then in the moment. I like and respect these people so much, and am grateful for the blessing of having this work and these relationships.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>I will not be sliding down any inflatable escape-chutes any time soon.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The only thing missing is my darling. It&#8217;s an ache being apart from him, but I know that space and time apart are healthy.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Last night I wrote this to him, which sums up how I&#8217;m feeling:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Even though I&#8217;m far away from you, my heart is light because of you, brimming with joy. I feel enormous, easy love for the friends I see, and instead of wary urban suspicion, I regard the people on the street with affection for their humanity.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>I see handsome people on bikes or walking past and simply smile like I would at a funny advert. I remember all the hot chases, conquests, and losses, and I simply feel free from the strivingness of all that. And from the sadness; joyfully free from the heavy-hearted, sooty-veined sadness. I am not saved, but I am delivered.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Thank you. I miss you. I love you.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"blogpress_location\">Location:<a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=Markham%20St,Toronto,Canada%4043.658074%2C-79.409591&amp;z=10\">Markham St,Toronto,Canada<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/posts\/1207\/no-baggage-on-this-trip0.jpg.webp\" alt=\"\"><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in Toronto and having a great, relaxed time. I&#8217;m eating in great local restaurants, seeing big dumb summer movies with friends (cinemas! we don&#8217;t have those in Wick), and being totally, utterly, absolutely in love with the people I work with. It&#8217;s great to work directly with the team members at my client&#8217;s office, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}