Good company

[redbird]

roadnotes spent the afternoon up here today. We drank tea, talked, and ate carrot cake (she hadn't been to Carrot Top in a while, for reasons of geography). It was a broad-ranging catchup conversation, a bit of what's new (stuff that had seemed either too minor or too private to put on LJ) and comparing notes on where we are, how we got here, and what we (mostly) like about it. Also about being sick and low on energy, but recovering.

We've been having these conversations for a long time. Not really for the first few years we knew each other, but for about a quarter century now. Having that depth of time and connection is valuable: not that nothing needs explaining, but that there's texture to the new information and the explanations.

I got some extra exercise in, by going up and over the hill on 215th Street (steeper, and stairs) on my way to Carrot Top. I'd been thinking that I wanted variety, and I'd go east on 215th, down the staircase, and then walk back my usual way, on 218th, once I had the cake. And then I had the cake, looked at that rather industrial-looking and uninteresting stretch of Broadway, and climbed back up the stairs. (Ten flights, ten or so steps each.)