I knew they weren’t around. I figured they were on vacation or something fun like that. Maybe they were off on a romping-good food-time across the countryside of Italy.

Or maybe they were off trying a meditation retreat in India, or learning to climb overhangs in Argentina, or something fun like that.

I never thought to look for them in the Lost and Found.

But there they were. Upon waking this morning, I found myself at the L & F desk–I’d tell you where it is if I could. It’s one of those Kafka-esque places where you realize where you are without any idea of the path you took to get there.

So there I am at at the desk having a pleasant exchange with the attendant who had clearly been taking very good care of them in my absence. They were happy to see me and seemed to harbor no resentment for having been left to their own devices for the last month.

They hopped in the body mobile and we came straight here, to the keyboard. They were rather excited at first. They had a hard time organizing themselves into coherent sentences and kept rushing out in misspelled order.

I suppose that’s to be expected. When you haven’t done your bloggy thing for a full month, you’re bound to need a little re-acclimation time, n’est-ce pas?

When I asked why they hadn’t called to let me know where they were and that they were OK, they said they were wanting to leave their options open. Just in case they wanted their little reprieve from work to be permanent.

By the time they were ready to blog again, they were so far gone they couldn’t find their way back. Then when they noticed I wasn’t even looking for them, well, you can guess that they felt rather unappreciated.

Thank goodness they don’t hold grudges, because ours is a co-creative relationship. They have no voice without me and I have nothing to say with out them. When they are quiet, my fingers are still. When they are excited, I am out of sorts until they hit the screen.

Hmmm, maybe I was needing a short break from their beck and call, too.

Well, we all got some time off and I am thrilled to be back at the keyboard, relaying their ideas on life, comments on anything, and celebrations of anything that hits their fancy.

Welcome home, my friends.

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The image was created by Wordle, a site that takes a bunch of text and creates a word cloud out of it based on the frequency of words used. Wordle appears to be a project of Jonathan Feinberg, a super smarty-pants guy who also created a haiku finder. Thank you, Jonathon for this most entertaining project!! Who knew one could have such good clean fun at 8am in the morning? It’s borderline illegal.