the city....

so i made it to seattle, it was good to see eric, we are currently residing at the green tortoise hostel outside of pike market. its pretty much the in the coolest location ever.

we have been cruising down to the market to wander through all of the fresh flower stands, fresh seafood stands, the bakeries and the fruit stands. the aroma of it all mixed together is intoxicating. it mixed with the hundreds of people down there was a neat sight yesterday, it smelled like life to me, yea, thats the only way to adequately explain it.

yesterday after hanging out and drinking coffee on alki beach and reading i decided seattle would be a nice place to reside. i could certainly get used to it.

so i am reading the alchemist right now. an to be honest it is really speaking to me. it talks a great deal about how the world is so interconnected and how each person must fulfill their own personal legend in their lives. it also talks about how each person is connected to the personal legends of others

and i began to look at the city yesterday and see how i was connected to the people around me. it was such a strange feeling to look at someone i didnt know and see them for the hand of the creator and to see that he had brought us to the same place at the same time and we would never meet again. eric and i began to talk about this and we noticed that we were in the background of some peoples pictures, we talked about how as long as those people owned those pictures we were connected to them. im still trying to sort out all of this in my head, so it probably sounds mushy.

its all very existential in manner and im having trouble wrapping my mind around it, but god is teaching me something cool, i can feel it coming, he just hasnt put all the puzzle pieces together yet.

anyway,

once we came into the city we checked in and eric and i began to cruise the city. we wandered for a while the found ourselves at the space needle. it was pretty cool and we decided to go into the experience music and sci fi museums. both were really cool. then we ordered a bit of pizza and sat in a park overlooking puget sound and ate and read. i finished the alchemist but i think i want to start it again...i know, im ridiculous.

after pizza me and eric went for a stroll on our phones :)

then, to bed i said, to bed.

-dshelbywhitlock