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Quick update -- I arrived in Edinburgh Tuesday evening -- overnight flight from Vancouver to London Heathrow (which, thanks to the time difference, landed me smack in the middle of an afternoon) connected easily (well, except for that long trek from Terminal 5 to Terminal 3 and a decision to search my suitcase -- pleasantly and efficiently) with the flight from LHR to Edinburgh where I walked outside the airport and hopped on a tram (for which I'd already bought a ticket online). And just as I walked up her street, my friend, walking toward me from the opposite direction, waved through the gloaming. . .

Lovely homemade soup, a long enough chat to get well caught up, and then a comfortable bed.

Since then. . .
A walk up Calton Hill, just five minutes away. . . (yes, that's it pictured above)

Quick visits to the National Library and the National Museum of Scotland (a charming exhibition of embroidered samplers by Scottish children/young women gave me a focus in this museum that really deserved a full day) and just today, the National Portrait Gallery.

A very enjoyable walk across the city to meet a friend of my friend for a performance of "tiny plays" written and performed by MFA students inspired by Robert Louis Stevenson's Songs of Travel -- and then dinner at that friend's charming home afterward and a walk back across the city at midnight! Might end up being my favourite memory of the visit, that walk. . .  We got home at One! A! M!! That is not my normal schedule. But I'm thinking a shift might be in order. . .

A visit from an Instagram friend, fellow runner (although mine's scaled down and hers has scaled up since we "met" online) and blog reader. The three of us started with champagne and nibbles here at L's rented place and then moved to a French restaurant down the road (I will have to say something later about the food situation here in Edinburgh -- range and quality very impressive!). I marvelled again at the way relationships can begin in social media, be formed there into such a solid foundation that an engaged and engaging conversation -- seemingly authentic, however problematic you might find that word -- happens almost effortlessly when you finally get to meet In Real Life. And on so many topics, not at all easy ones. Teresa May's choices and Scottish Independence and mother-daughter relationships and the satisfactions of a career and our sense of ourselves (and of others' sense of ourselves) as we age. . .  Thoroughly satisfying. . .

I spent today a bit more slowly -- I racked up 11.5 kilometres and 14 kilometres respectively on Wednesday and Thursday, and thought perhaps I needn't do that today -- but no less productively. A splendid afternoon at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery visiting an exhibition of Victoria Crowe's work. I'll be posting some photos from that exhibition on Instagram -- marvellous work, really. I ended up buying the catalogue in the Gift Shop and then sitting in the Gallery Café with a pot of tea and a slice of Raspberry Polenta cake and sketching, a bit self-consciously of course, but I did it. Felt rather hubristic, to be honest, given what accomplished work I'd just seen, but then I reminded myself of what Madeline L'Engle wrote in A Circle of Quiet.  She would locate any hubris in that very self-consciousness; the way to stay humble, I told myself, was just to do the work, to put down lines on the page as best I could, to "throw myself away in complete concentration on something else." The way my granddaughter did, sprawled on the floor in front of Guo Pei's couture creations at the Vancouver Art Gallery a few weeks ago. . . So perhaps I'll share that sketch with you in a future post. Or perhaps not. Depends what I get up to between now and then.

Which seems a good note to end on, don't you think?

I have two more days here in Edinburgh, and it's quite obvious now I won't be able to see as much of it as I'd hoped to. Won't be for lack of trying though. . . And that means saying good-bye to you for now so that I can get back out there.

Your comments are ever so welcome, always, but again, because I'll be guarding my Edinburgh days carefully, I probably won't respond to them. I will read each one, however, and thank you in anticipation. . .

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