Comments on: The love parade

By: La Belette Rouge

La Belette Rouge — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 22:36:52 +0000

Thanks so much for your comment, Tintin! I like the LB station better too. It is quieter and feels more like someplace separate from everything. I took that train to work in Evanston and to downtown for shopping. And, you are a terrier lover!! Well now I must follow you back to your blog. My terrier is a Westie. But I am mad for all terriers.
Until you mentioned it, i hadn’t thought of the smell of the Metra. But you are so right. It does have a specific smell.
Lovely to meet you! Thanks so much for the memory provoking comment.

By: tintin

tintin — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 17:24:28 +0000

Maybe I rode the train with your husband. Sometimes I picked up the train in Lake Forest but I liked the Lake Bluff station better. I spent cold nights walking a wire fox terrier around the Harrison Conference Center. I left almost 10 years ago. And while I love living in NYC, I still miss that smell of train on my suit.

By: La Belette Rouge

La Belette Rouge — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 13:43:08 +0000

Thank you, Gazebo News! I am so grateful for the post and link. It makes me feel like in some way I am *home* for the parade. Thanks!

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By: La Belette Rouge

La Belette Rouge — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 12:38:49 +0000

This is me taking in your lovely comment.;-) It feels good. Thank you, Imogen.
xo+pbc

By: La Belette Rouge

La Belette Rouge — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 12:37:44 +0000

Dear Deni: Thank you so much. I am touched by your very kind compliment and your sharing of your story. And, yeah, I do get it. I am so sorry about the loss of your beloved O’Brien. I do believe that your dogs will benefit from all of the joy and love and excitement that you will feel when you bring your baby home and ultimately there will be more love. I have to believe that. Yet I understand your dread in leaving them. I can’t help but love you for all your concern for your animals.
Finally I am so sorry you know that longing for another place. It is a hard one and one that offers no easy answers.
Sending you, your husband and your dogs all my good thoughts.

By: Imogen Lamport

Imogen Lamport — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 05:21:43 +0000

I understand the love which you write about and am so glad that you are getting to feel it. I also am so incredibly proud of you for having this breakthrough about your mother.
xx pbc

By: Deni Troxclair

Deni Troxclair — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 04:58:10 +0000

The way you write is beautiful, almost surreal. I read it and I know how you feel leaving your home in Lake Bluff. Everyday it seems I wake up and wonder why I’m here, and it’s so much closer than you are to home! I don’t know your whole story, but I look forward to learning it.

Our baby should be born this week and I was almost in tears at dinner thinking about leaving our big dogs here with a sitter (she is amazing and ADORES them), I told hubby that I just hate leaving them this long (could be 2+ weeks) and then coming home to disrupt the life they’ve always known. I believe you could understand that, that’s why I’m sharing! My dogs are my heart. Losing my sweet O’Brien in March (11 years old) was one of the hardest things ever. I think about him EVERY day!

Anyhow, long ramble, just know I adore reading your words!!!

By: La Belette Rouge

La Belette Rouge — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 02:41:30 +0000

I am so grateful you found me!!! Sorry about the other blog. I went private when I was in transition to the new blog.

By: La Belette Rouge

La Belette Rouge — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 02:40:36 +0000

It would be easier if it was just a place that we longed for. They sell tickets to those. But it is impossible to get back to a place in time. Le sigh!