I love waiting for the train at our Overlook Park stop, Primo worried about the other boys and whether we are going to leave them on the platform. I love the food carts hidden in plain sight all over the city with divergent options like Peanut Butter and Jelly cart or The Sugar Cube. I love the bridges that link the East to the West and the North to the South, anchoring the city to itself so that no one neighborhood gets too far away. I love the city of Portland for many reasons but as I sit here at the dinning room table of close friends in the Fountain Square neighborhood of Indianapolis, Indiana I realize that it is not so much relationships I have in the city as it is the city itself.
The boys and I drove down from North of Indianapolis to meet friends for Sunday Night dinner. I have talked about this before but Sunday night dinner is a gathering of a number of families in this close in neighborhood each Sunday night. There are about 8 families that participate and each Sunday dinner is at a different house. You host once every two months but when you host you make dinner for up to 40 people. You can grab your food and go or make a plate and join the conversation with more people choosing the later. Getting to come back to the city where Beautiful and I were married, and where Primo was born and we still have our first house is great because it means reconnecting with the people at Sunday Night Dinner. It is this connection with these people that makes me love Indianapolis, or more specifically Fountain Square. I feel like I have far too little time to spend with them, far too little time to measure up to the depth connection I feel to them.
Talking to Beautiful last night she said she was excited for me to get to see our friends. She knew that these people, more than this place, was important to me and she was glad that I got to be here with them and stay if even for one night. We had our Band of SAHD podcast tonight with one of those friends and I was reminded how great it was to be a stay at home dad with him next door. There is this thought that if you have a Dads group of other men that stay at home with kids that you will connect. That being a Stay at home dad is big enough connection for you to be friends but that isn’t necessarily true. But here in Fountain Square I had not only another Stay at home dad, but a friend that connected with and enjoyed hanging out with and I have yet to find that in Portland.
I will keep looking for that connection. Trying to find the people in the city that I love. But I love Fountain Square for the spirit of the people that I connected with and am still connected to.
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That’s great to find, but difficult. Especially for dedicated dad’s. At least that’s my theory.
Still looking myself.
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Portlanddad Reply:
August 18th, 2010 at 8:26 am
It is hard to find because it’s hard to look for. That great connection and compatibility takes time to find and we just don’t have a lot of time
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I agree w/ @seattledad and indeed, I’m still looking as well.
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Portlanddad Reply:
August 18th, 2010 at 8:27 am
Maybe if you move out West some day you will find it
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when i lived in seattle, i absolutely loved the city. still do. it haunts me like a beautiful ghost.
but i never quite found the depth that my hometown provided me. so i could relate to your post very well. good stuff, my friend. hope you enjoy the rest of your time there…
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Portlanddad Reply:
August 18th, 2010 at 8:27 am
I appreciate it John. I have been lucky enough to find it twice so I hold out hope that I haven’t run the well dry yet
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