vacation

On Saturday I will leave for a week-long vacation in Vermont. I am looking forward to my first vacation in two years, but with some trepidation. My last vacation, two summers ago, was scary because I was so horrifically depressed that my stay in an isolated mountain town in Pennsylvania was like torture; I could not enjoy the quiet or solitude. I could not sleep. I thought I was losing my mind and all I could do was listen to the Japanese pop singer Hikaru Utada sing this song called "Distance" and cry. This picture that I took while I was there says it all. I was quaking every waking minute. So I fervently hope that this trip will be much much better.