Hello, Florida, Nice To Meet You!

     Though some of the people I most love and cherish live far away,

...and there are moments when I miss them with the most terrible longing,

 ... I console myself that having them live far away gives me places to travel to.
     Arizona, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, the Minnesota prairie, Ithaca, New York, New York City (not counting a couple of day trips when I was young), and Portland, Oregon are among the wonderful places in this diverse, beautiful country of ours that I had entered middle age without having seen, nor likely would ever have seen had the presence dearly loved ones not brought me to those places.
     Now I can add another wonderful place to that list: Florida.
     As of a few days ago I had never been to the Sunshine State.  But thanks to My sister Romaine,  

...who lives in Portland but who last week had some business in Sarasota,

...I was finally given a reason to visit beautiful,

...and, as we learned, seasonably torrentially rainy,

...Sarasota, Florida.

     So, hello, Sarasota,

...nice to meet you,

...mind if I sit down?

     To be continued....

"Equal And Opposite Reactions"
         by Patti Liszkay
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