well, gee, hello!

who woulda thunk it?

see, we are all members of the nelson/kootenay tribe... i dont think it would even occure to a lot of people to look for a kaslo tribe... ha!

and here, i thought, 'you know, if there is no kaslo tribe, maybe i will start one!'

because I LOVE KASLO.

i mean, i didnt when i was a teenager... i thought it was pretty terrible then. but this is now. ive been all over north america. ive lived in cities on either side of the continent. ive become numb and cynical towards the cheap, shallow, stink of the 'exciting' urban centers... i cant wait to get my degree and haul my country arse back to the kootenays where i belong.

i grew up in kaslo. i went through the ringer in kaslo. i just about died in kaslo... various times for various reasons. i did more in my initial fourteen years alive in kaslo then a lot of people do in a life! namely, get the hell out!

haha. of course, i ended up back there, but at least at that point i knew there was a world out there... and it didnt take me long to turn around and get myself established OUT.

oh god... i hated it there about as much as anyone can... having been the adolescent subject of much gossip/stereotyping/labelling/scorn...

but i'm serious, now, in the great wisdom of my 22 years, occuring, since my 16th birthday, away from kaslo, that i really do love it there. it holds a pretty deep, pretty special place in my heart.

the few days or week a year that i make it back there are sweet, and i cherish them.


besides. my dad's the mayor. ;)