to be close. This picture from 2008 is one of my favorites. Kaitlin and Torben had convinced us to switch from PCs to Macs…Andy is trying out the MacBook we bought in Santa Fe together.
It reminds me of a cartoon for the Enneagram Type Five. A gal and guy are out in nature, sitting with their backs leaning against one another. They’re both reading a book, thinking,
This is the best first date I’ve ever been on.
I read that years ago and it still warms my heart and cracks me up. We’re all built differently, and we each have to figure out what works for us.
April 24, 2021
I love the image of the date you described. It is a special feeling when you find someone you are comfortable reading with.
I know. 🙂
So true! I hope you both got the hang of the Mac. I have not bought one because they are so different from Windows that I don’t think I could learn it.
We’ve been happy Mac users since 2008. There was a bit of a learning curve at first, now we have to remember how to use Andy’s PC laptop.
I think that is why I like “bus hopping” on my own – I get to make all the decisions on what I do, which route, where I hop off and then back on, what I eat, where I people watch and then when I’m done “meander back home”
– I tried it once with a pal and he kept insisting that we couldn’t get off just anywhere as the destination was xyz! I had given him that in that he could select where we got off, but then we missed a place I’d not been too before.
I went again a few weeks later and hopped off and on – on that route…and was pleased I could visit the smaller Mall without worrying about how much time was being wasted..
I know it’s not quite the same as the “cartoon” but in a way it is – as me and my invisible imaginary clone (me) – can do what we like…
You’re right. The point of the cartoon was the two of them were in synch. That’s rare.
Judy and I are like that and then either recommend or say thumbs down to the other one reading “our” book.
It’s nice when we can share our interests that way. 🙂
I was ready with this comment when I read your title. this means you have not met me! in answer to we don’t always have to be talking.
But after reading your post and seeing the photo, that doesn fit at all.
I had to look up the Enneagram, new word to me. I am Five and I am the Fear, desire and six wing.
Years ago, the first 5 years of our 37 together, we went twice a week to the beach, we spent many happy hours just sitting in chairs staring out at the gulf, listening to gulls scream and fish jump and people watching. no words needed, but when we walked along we talked about what we saw.
That’s what the post is about. I’ve met a lot of people who would think there’s something wrong with the people in that picture. No, just as there’s nothing wrong with people who like to interact more.
I’m a Six on the Enneagram, but I have a Five wing. Andy’s a Five.
I think if you find someone you are that in sync with then you are a very lucky person indeed.
I also want to thank you for making my day today. Such a sweet thing to do.
I wanted to help a bit. You work so hard.
I have a photo of Dave’s extended family sitting around the table after dinner all looking at phones. Dave and I sit in our living room each with our own laptop occasionally sharing comments about our separate online communities.
Yes, that’s companionship. 🙂
There’s something so neat about folks engaged in what they love — and, at the same time relaxed — knowing (that) they’re loved.
Yes. 🙂
Well, that would not be Roger and me BOTH reading…he reads for information…I read for information AND fun…to be taken away. Sometimes by fiction, at times by autobiographies, memoirs, diaries from another time.
It doesn’t matter what it is as long as we love it. 🙂