I liked that you could see my face, and through my eyes the water. It felt like it captured my fascination with water and held a certain fixation on water. Though that may not reflect me all the time, it does feel accurate sometimes. Though the image was brand new it felt like something I had seen before. It felt very familiar but I couldn't tell you why.
I've spent the last two nights at my grandparent's apartment in Hyde Park for our family's seder. Many of the windows of their apartment look out on to Lake Michigan, and I remember staring out them as a kid. (The strangest thing was that you could never hear the water. You could only see it, so sometimes it felt like someone had turned off the sound on a movie.) As I was sitting at the table for the seder I looked up and saw where the image from my influence book had come from! There are three sets of two windows in the apartment that look out over Lake Michigan; when seen from the right angle Chicago disappears and you are left alone with the horizon. There it was! That was the image from my influence book! I had not dreamt it, the image was real! It was beautiful to see my influence book laid out before me. I tried to take a picture to accompany this post, but the room was too dark and the water was too bright. Maybe I'll try another day.
In other news, job searching late at night is confusing, but can be quite fruitful. But also, it is stressful because you send out emails at two in the morning on Sunday knowing that there is no way to get a response any time soon. You must sit and wait.
But, that's everything right now. Sitting and waiting. Or, as I shared with a friend today, what would Jewish holidays be without repetition and wine? Not much, that's everything. "Let's do it again, now let's have some wine. (We survived!)"
love,
hannah
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