{"id":3874,"date":"2015-08-16T17:58:22","date_gmt":"2015-08-17T00:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=3874"},"modified":"2015-08-16T17:58:22","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T00:58:22","slug":"ice-cream-skagway-alaska-08132015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=3874","title":{"rendered":"Ice Cream \u2013 Skagway, Alaska \u2013 [08\/13\/2015]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"freespiritvintage\"<\/a>What a day to be together
\nAnd what a sky of blue
\nAnd what a day for holding hands and
\nBein\u2019 with you<\/em><\/p>\n

Or<\/p>\n

Now my heart hears music
\nSuch a simple song
\nSing it again the notes never end
\nThis is where I belong!
\nSo you can rev\u2019 her up, don\u2019t go slow
\nIt\u2019s only green lights and alrights\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

Some days you don\u2019t need a whole lot. We become a strange kind of domestic out here. We wake up, we share breakfast, we go to work \u2013 pretty much like everyone else. The only difference is that work for us tends to be a bit more\u2026exotic than other places.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s true that after a while \u2013 sometimes a long while, sometimes a short while \u2013 you get tired of the blue floors and the white walls (which the guests never see, their part of the ship is lush and carpeted and beautiful, ours\u2026well it\u2019s functional), and you start thinking that maybe, just maybe that it\u2019s time to move onto other pastures. Not necessarily greener ones, just other ones. I\u2019m not quite<\/em> there yet, although I\u2019ll admit to being able to see the shadows of white picket fences and bright blue doors lapping at the corners of my daydreams.<\/p>\n

But that doesn\u2019t change the fact that our lives out here have a peculiar kind of magic, there is a painful kind of freedom to being rootless; when the only thing anchoring you in the world is the people around you, and the person whose hand is in yours.<\/p>\n

Which sounds awfully melancholy considering that the Alaskan sunshine has long since burned off the morning chill and I actually had one of those beautifully calm days where you really don\u2019t<\/em> need anything except a sidewalk to amble down and someone to talk to. Oh and ice cream, ice cream always helps. So do toasted bagels with smoked salmon spread (man that stuff is rich..), oh and hematite, and Disney\/Alaska t-shirts that just happened to be on sale and in my size\u2026I am easily pleased.<\/p>\n

I will admit I was somewhat afraid to come to Alaska; it always brings me big things, new friendships, old friendships, occasionally friendships that completely change the course of my life (I met Amras in Alaska\u2026just as an example). Careers shift, hearts change, silences break (sometimes with near painful results), silences start\u2026I never know what the season may bring waiting for me at the bottom of a glacier.<\/p>\n

But this season? Despite the fact that there have been a few moments of feeling like I was tumbling out of a tower in a Tarot Deck, it seems that what was waiting for me was all good things: acceptance, sunshine, oceans like glass, hematite\u2026and chocolate chip mint ice cream.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s really\u2026all about the ice cream.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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