I love equinoxes and solstices, and I don’t know why they are not a bigger deal in our society. Yesterday, Saturday, June 21, I took my dog Obie for a walk in the Milly Bog Park for a sunset stroll. I snapped this photo above from the Navoy Monument hill. I worked all day Friday, closing the office at school. On Friday night, we had a nice dinner at Syrovanya Restaurant, saying goodbye to friends. We live such strange lifestyles as global nomads. Close friends come and go in your lives annually as we move all around the world.
I also finally found a “map match” for the birthmark on my abdomen. I was born with a “port wine stain” (aka – capillary malformation) and unlike other types of birthmarks, it does not fade over time. Some people get laser surgery to remove it, but most people like me leave it on. It is not visible unless my shirt is off. I joked that it looked like a map of Madagascar, and I should make it into a tattoo. I don’t know why we started talking about it, but when I showed my friend, a dual citizen of the USA and Belgium, he said it looked like the Belgian province of Limburg as you can see below. I even have the lower right enclave section of “Voeren,” which is a distinctive piece of Limburg that is surrounded by Germany and the Netherlands. I now have this province on my life bucket list. Limburg has Belgium’s only national park, great cycling paths, and is the center of gin production in the country. It sounds like it was made for me!
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