edelsont | Still in Olympia

Yes, I’ve been sheltering in place since Friday 08-11, and won’t be leaving here until Monday (08-21): a total of ten nights.

And the predicted high temperature here, today, is still higher than the one for Marshall, NC. Unlike the first five days, though, by now it’s only a little higher. I’m glad of that — though, when I was planning the trip, I was expecting that Olympia would be cooler.

Something else I was expecting, or at least hoping, about this trip (though I’m pretty sure I haven’t said so, here on DW, before): that I would have the opportunity for a far-reaching, informative conversation with someone from the Olympia meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (in other words, one of the local Quakers). (I don’t mean someone in particular — just someone.)

I am happy to report that this wish, unlike the one about the weather, did come true. But not at all in the way that I expected it would. How it actually came about is quite a story.