First Letter to A New Friend

Kali, belle Kali,

Meeting you was wonderful, necessary, and simultaneously light and intense...

How are you? I've thought of you often since my return to Ottawa, and
have wondered about you, imagining you walking about on the Sunshine
Coast, doing some artwork, listening to your records, hatching a plan
to leave... Is there anything in the works? Are your toes curled on
the edge of new options?

The adjustment to being back home has been more difficult than
expected. I just felt like my mind was in its rightful place while I
was in AB & BC - just pushed to its full potential through
conversation, new sounds, new sights, new people, general peace. It
is difficult for me to find the strength to remember the beauty in
the old routine here, in the lack of magic in the city, in the
dwindling number of friends who are still around. But I'm doing my
best, and the memory of having met you and spent a wonderful time out
west serves as a reminder that beauty is always just around the
corner, it is always possible, and it is often temporary. It goes,
and it comes back, and it goes again, and then returns... I must
learn to trust in this again.

I keep having dreams where I'm wearing some of your clothes! So how
about this - could I send you a cheque and buy a couple of those
gorgeous cotton shirts you made, with the gold "bonhommes" you
created? I love them and have decided that I absolutely need one (or
two!) If you have some to spare, I would especially like a white one
and a brown one...

I should go for now, my twin Manon needs the phone and I'm on dial-up
here. So on this note I send you a hug, and hope that you are doing
well. I would love it if we could keep in touch, if you like. Call me
any time, day or night - I'm that 4 a.m. kind of person you can call
when you're having one of those "nights" - or write.

cell: 613-325-2267
e-mail: camille@croteau.to
blog thingy: www.afrenchvacation.blogspot.com

Much love from afar,

Camille (aka Ninja Faery - at your service!)