After having moved half a ton of vinyl, 3 tons of books, 5 tons of CDs, and most of the furniture we now come to the last phase – on Monday we have removal men coming to take our beds, TV, computer, kitchen table and settee.
I will walk around the house and relive memories from the last thirty years – memories of our children growing up, of friends, laughter, argument, fury and love. Friends, now dead, have sat within this house and I will taste their presence and think of them. Those memories are already packed inside my head but I think that they permeate the fabric of the building and something of us will remain behind to resonate within those walls.
This house has stood for three hundred years and we have left our mark on it. We have altered the infrastructure, improved the building, put up an extension and changed it for the better. Yet, even though we have spent nearly half our lives here, we were only passing through.
I look upon the bigger picture. It is the same with the planet. We are only passing through. Do we leave the world a better place from the experience of our lives? Or do we leave it the poorer?
I am going on into a new chapter of life next week. I shall leave much behind but ahead there is a new adventure. That is where I go with great enthusiasm. Life is change. It will change me – hopefully for the better!
I am under no delusions. There will be many things I miss and are saddened by.
I may be out of contact for a while. In my experience promises are rarely met. I do not expect the internet to work. I expect a period of time in which I will need to remonstrate with a lot of people to get things working properly.
I look forward to talking to you in the future from a new life!! Fare thee well!
Adieu, my friend ! See you on the new side 🙂
Tomorrow is the big day! Exciting!
Woohoo – all the best xx
Adieu mon ami. Soyez bénis dans vos nouvelles aventures. 😀
Adios Amigo!
Hope all goes well, Opher, and that we’ll hear from you in the not too distant future!
Cheers Dave. We’re there but not as we know it! Nothing works! All is strange. I think we’re in a quantum universe! I’m sure it will sort itself out. Internet is appalling!
Fingers crossed for you!
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Things done be looking up!! Have some internet, a phone and a bit of order among the chaos.
Viva la revolución !
Viva indeed!! I thought you had gone Matt?
Well, you must have made it, you write books and post from SOMEWHERE. LOL But we do put our stamp on where we live and make that space ours, regardless of “just passing through” or otherwise. My childhood home was made into ours over the last 30 years. It was tough selling the farm and moving here, but the kids loved it here, were are more kids their age, and I wanted to keep this place “in family” and since there’s over an acre lot size, this place is worth a small fortune. If we don’t sell to finance life offshore somewhere, it will be passed to my son, but glad you’ve found your new home, opher, and hope you and family love it.
Yeah – we’re settled in now! It is just traumatic. But our last house was three hundred and fifty years old. We were there for thirty years. But that was just an interlude. It was never really ours was it?