Jill and I both grew up listening to The Police.
They had a fantastic album called Synchronicity.
Yes, I’m old, we had albums back then.
And cassette tapes.
And we had to walk up hill to school.
Both ways.
Without shoes.
Or with shoes made of cardboard.
And kids today just don’t understand how tough we had it.
But I digress.
As you all know, we left Beijing yesterday.
However, my friend, and amazingly talented person, Chris Stecher, just published Issue #5 of his online magazine, Precis. His fantastic wife, Kat Tosi, encouraged him to start an online magazine and use his talents to make some thing very special. He has accomplished that with style, grace and pure determination.
He used 3 of my blog posts in it and it actually was published the day we were leaving at 3 am.
The three posts are all from BEFORE I left the USA and were the “countdown” posts about moving to China.
They deal with saying goodbye, my dad’s growing dementia, and Leslie Mesones‘ doggies who I’ll also miss.
I have now said goodbye to everyone in China, landed in the USA, and am probably incredibly jet-lagged but happy beyond belief.
I write my blog posts in advance because I want to make sure I don’t miss any days. So, I’ve now been home for a full day before this even goes out but I’m writing it on my last day, at 3 am, here in Beijing because I can’t sleep.
We will have left Beijing at 4 pm on Monday, December 15th. We will have arrived in San Francisco at 5 pm on Monday, December 15th because of the time zone difference. Synchronicity.
We’ll have traveled almost exactly the correct amount of time to take off and land at the same time on the same day.
It is almost like traveling in a time machine.
I’ll be posting about the flight and the landing soon enough.
For now, please do me a favor and read PRECIS and then go to the Facebook page and “like” it. My posts are on page 19 and 20 but read it all.
Chris has done an amazing job with it and it his labor of love.
Please reward him and also comment about what you like.
His computer crashed 3 different times and he almost lost everything. It was delayed for a week or so and he barely was able to get it all done. I can’t believe how hard he worked and am so proud to be a part of this amazing magazine and to be his and Kat’s friend.
I’m blown away that I have an article published about my first getting ready to leave the USA and move to China on the exact day we are leaving China to come to the USA.
Precis Synchronicity.