Well, here we go again

It is Thursday, Sept 1 and I am sure you are waiting for me to spill my guts, after 2+ years of writing nothing?

No? Well, here I go anyway, even though you have turned away.

It has been a lively and interesting 2 years, hasn't it?!?!?! Always is. You don't suppose I mean to detail every little crumb of my existence, do you? Of course not, and if I did you would probably turn away in sheer boredom, because the parts that have been so interesting are all only interesting to me.

I did go to New Orleans last October. That was super fascinating for me because I had never been to some place so "old"(as far as in America), never seen such rich and distinct culture on display, never heard "that music" in real life, and never tasted such Deep South food before.

Walking through the French Quarter is just so lively, and when in New Orleans, do as the New Orleaneans do(spelling????), so that meant more alcohol consumed in that October wedding weekend then I had drunk the entire 10 months prior to that visit.

On to other things......I enrolled in school, @ 42, after so many years as a gardener. I don't have the slightest clue as to the "what, why, how" of it all. My reasoning simply amounts to "because..........".

Archaeology and Prehistory is a class that is really catching my attention, along with Intercultural Communications. As for Archaeology: I really like the ideas of scientific processing, in as much as I understand them today. The hunt for questions about what is being observed, the periodic lack of absolute answers regarding artifacts found, the never-ending possibilities all conspire to make me want to go deeper.

All in all I much prefer the questions in life to the answers and so Archaeology is bringing to me a plethora of possibility and rich thought.

I am also pretty damned caught up with ethics of Archaeology(who owns the knowledge?), the shocking and more often than not sad history of the native peoples of this landmass before contact through today, and hoping to contribute positively to the on-going and ever-evolving discussions of the shared history.

So, how boring is that?!?!?!?!