I do enjoy being there with you, thank you. I could see it and smell it and feel it. My people too

Joy S

: I am in Salisbury now. Walked around
: yesterday..got a pair of low
: *wellies* so I can go walking in
: the rain at Avebury to be with my
: stones

: It is like a pilgrimmage, this going
: to visit the stones. They sing
: when they see me, like the dogs do
: when I come home and they are
: waiting at the fence. *She's
: here!, she's here!*.

: I will go and visit the stones, say
: hello to the sheep who live there
: with them. And then to the little
: book store to see about this
: year's crop circles...what
: unfolding there has been in 2012.

: I am staying in a hotel built in 1400
: something..there is an ivy in the
: courtyard which is reported to be
: more than 300 years old. I often
: think about what it has seen and
: heard, the stories of people
: sitting in the courtyard sipping
: beer and tea, talking. They sit no
: matter how grey it is, as long as
: it is not raining...and then if it
: rains, they sit under the edge
: there, in grey or dark green
: coats, smoking. I think they do
: not allow smoking in the pub, so
: the smokers sit outside while itis
: slightly misty and damp.

: Inside in the parlour, there are grey
: haired ladies drinking tea and men
: in tweed drinking stout. They talk
: of the weather, their children,
: their dogs and some politics. The
: tone of the voices remind me of my
: mother and her family, reminding
: me of tones back through the
: generations, back to tweed and tea
: on grey days with a fire in the
: fireplace.

: I remember the first time I came to
: England. There was a coal fire in
: a fireplace. I cam from AZ and had
: never seen anything like it. It
: felt like the world was right that
: winter. We came in Nov..everything
: was grey and wet, but there was
: coal in the fireplace burning with
: a brightness and there were
: Cornish pasties and hot tea and
: bangers and mash and everything
: seemed all right.

: When I come back, I remember being 11
: and discovering this land of my
: people.

: Kathleen