My friend JD, who just moved to the Colorado area was in the restroom of a restaurant in downtown Denver and read the following quotes which were scratched on the wall:
"Living is the art of projecting past emotions on future dreams."
Beneath this quote, someone else had written, "Live in Boulder."
I've been thinking about this quote, resonating with it, but not quite sure. But today, I think I am beginning to grasp it . . . I'm here, living in Boulder, and especially today, I think I just might be projecting my past emotions on my future dreams. My mind and heart feel free to dream here, and I'm sure somehow those dreams about the future have to be connected with what I've experienced in my life. The weather is perfect. After a freak hail storm on Saturday (it looked like it had snowed), the heat waves we had been experiencing were swept out, and now it's back to the perfect, sunny, 80-degree days. As I write this, I'm sitting in a quaint coffee shop on Pearl Street that gives me the feeling that I'm in France, until I look at all of the signs that boast their 100% organic, certified free-trade coffees, and then I realize that I must be in Boulder.
Ironically, most of my dreams at the moment involve leaving this place and traveling the world. Maybe one of the reasons that I love Boulder and want to leave it are the same: there are so many different cultures represented here. The town feels somewhat European, but there's also an Eastern influence . . . just want to see it for myself. Until then, I'm perfectly content to call this place home.
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