Plenty

"Plenty"

I looked into your eyes
they told me plenty
I already knew
you never felt a thing
so soon forgotten all that you do
in more than words I
tried to tell you
the more I tried I failed
I would not let myself believe
that you might stray
and I would stand by you
no matter what they'd say, I would have thought I'd be with you
until my dying day
until my dying day
I used to think my life
was often empty
a lonely space to fill
you hurt me more than
I ever would have imagined
you made my world stand still
and in that stillness
there was a freedom
I never felt before
I would not let myself believe
that you might stray
and I would stand by you
no matter what they'd say, I would have thought I'd be with you
until my dying day
until my dying day

I don't think I ever really knew what the lyrics to this Sarah McLachlan song were before looking them up just now. Or, maybe I knew without ever knowing. In any case, just heard this song again while watching Queer as Folk, and was moved by it and wanted to savor that feeling here.

Pike Place Special Reserve

One of the many stops I made on my journey across the country (and back) was to the original Starbucks store in Pike Place Market. In many ways it didn't seem all that different from all the other Starbucks stores I've visited.

Of course, two major differences are the original logo and the availability of Pike Place Special Reserve.


I definitely enjoyed my time in Seattle, though it did feel a bit strange to be in a city I had been in ten years before and experience it in simultaneously different and similar ways.

The more and more I think back on my cross-country trip and talk/write about it, the less and less I feel that I don't like to travel. I continue to surprise myself by how I'm changing as I get older. (Not to diminish, however, the ways I'm staying the same!)