MAKING LONGVIEW MY HOME

This year, 2021, I have got to start making Longview my home.

While it is true that I’ve lived in Longview with Bob longer than any other place we’ve set up house and carved out a life (23 years as opposed to the 18 in Cathlamet, & the 2 in Raymond) … I never considered Longview “my home”; it was just “the place Bob prefers to live”.

But I’ve lived here, in Longview, solo lobo for 26 months now (2 years longer than Bob ever did) – and much of that time has been spent alone because people have been hiding in their houses, scared out of their wits by shameless pandering politicians.

So, any progress I make for myself will have to be undertaken by myself.

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8J2ztEt4zA)

I need to get comfortable with Longview as my personal place of residence: I need to make it my own.

I have to start learning the streets, the highways, and the byways of Longview – so I can move freely from one place to another about town; without frustration.

It never mattered before, if I knew or not … Bob knew. And I didn’t particularly care. If it was necessary to get from one place to another; Bob could get us there with his eyes closed.

But Bob is not here anymore. 

Getting out and about is all on me now.

Now, it is important that I know myself, how to get from here to there easily.

It is important that I walk confidently into a business and be able to conduct business, and transactions without a knowledgeable 6’2” backup.

I need to be comfortable eating in fancy restaurants solo lobo, and owning my space on the sidewalks when I am out and about – instead of feeling half alive and handicapped without my big man by my side.

I need to do this for me: solo lobo. 

Whether I have an entourage of new friends, or not, I have got to find a niche for myself in the populace of Longview.

I will still be daytipping, and doing road trips 8 months out of the year; but my home is here.

It is time to ‘make friendly’ with Longview. 

It is time to start branching out, and meeting some people who live in Longview. While there will never be another Bob (he was unique in the way Yeshua created him), I believe wholeheartedly, that there are people out there with the similar character traits Bob exampled and blessed my life with. In my new life, I want friends that share some of Bob’s character.

It’s time to see Longview with my own eyes – and not so much through Bob’s eyes.

It’s time to scout the land for my own benefit.

It is time to start building my new life here.

A solo lobo life that has a place for friends … but a solo lobo life that is also independent apart from a friend’s place in it. As I learned with the continual lockdowns all of 2020 (and predicted to project to the end of 2022), friendships will not be readily accessible; and present friends will be mostly absent. It is imperative that I establish a satisfactory solo lobo life.