{"id":1001,"date":"2011-06-24T10:32:31","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T14:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.old.caraghobrien.com\/book\/?p=1001"},"modified":"2011-06-24T10:32:31","modified_gmt":"2011-06-24T14:32:31","slug":"country-girlcity-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/miscellaneous\/country-girlcity-girl\/","title":{"rendered":"Country Girl\/City Girl"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1002\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.booksofwonder.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1002\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1002\" title=\"BooksofWMap250\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/BooksofWMap250.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"216\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1002\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Books of Wonder, 18 W. 18th Street, New York<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I\u2019m going to the city.\u00a0 It should be nice.\u00a0 I\u2019ve visited cities often enough that I don\u2019t freak out about the traffic or get flustered by the onslaught of sensory input, but I certainly notice that it\u2019s different from my quiet country existence.\u00a0 I prepare myself to see lots of people and tall buildings tight together.\u00a0 Exhaust and bakery scents will mix with the rainy sidewalk smell.\u00a0 There are likely to be limos and beggars, pretzel guys and high-heeled women with small dogs.\u00a0 I expect gray, and a little shop where I can buy a paper of safety pins for my loose skirt, and black hole entrances to parking garages.\u00a0 In a long, narrow coffee place, important strangers will talk loudly, and I\u2019ll find a church with quiet candles lit on the side.\u00a0 I expect to feel anonymous among millions, and also welcomed.\u00a0 Once a busload of New Yorkers passed forward their spare change to cover the fares for me and my little kids when we boarded unprepared.\u00a0 I\u2019m still thankful.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1003\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1003\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1003\" title=\"CapeWalk\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/CapeWalk.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"197\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1003\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cape Cod, June 2011<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Recently, by contrast, I spent a couple days on Cape Cod where I took walks alone along the shore.\u00a0 Absence of people stretched toward the horizon, magnifying the lapping noise of the water, encouraging me to indulge my imagination, to get lost in my mind while my feet moved forward over black seaweed and sand.\u00a0 I went over a lip of land to find a wider beach and seals offshore.\u00a0 Wind filled my ears and I became the discoverer, the first and only to ever find this continent.\u00a0 I wanted never to return.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re in NYC this Sunday, come stop by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.booksofwonder.com\/events.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Books of Wonder<\/a>, where I\u2019ll be reading and signing from 1-3 with my friends Leah Cypess, Jen Nadol, Caitlin Kittredge, Kate Milford, and Carmen Ferreiro-Esteban.\u00a0 I\u2019ll be the one with sand in my sneakers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m going to the city.\u00a0 It should be nice.\u00a0 I\u2019ve visited cities often enough that I don\u2019t freak out about the traffic or get flustered by the onslaught of sensory input, but I certainly notice that it\u2019s different from my quiet country existence.\u00a0 I prepare myself to see lots of people and tall buildings tight 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