Can’t sleep. Head and heart spinning. So, I am tapping out this post on my phone while my family sleeps elsewhere in my apartment. At least I hope they are sleeping …
Tomorrow we load my belongings into the horse trailer that they have towed here, 300 miles. I am not fully prepared, even though I started on this chore weeks ago. I confess that I have taken a very “Virgo” approach to packing, and that does slow things down.
I’ve washed and mended and sorted before relegating things to cardboard moving boxes. I’ve culled a lot and given away or pitched so much. And this has taken time.
It is a good feeling to have lightened my load, but I am baffled by just how many “necessities” remain. Oh. My.
My brother predicts that we will have it all loaded within four hours. That’s sixteen “man” hours if we’re all engaged. Unfortunately I have to run a couple of errands, such as returning my cable modem …
That’s all just the technical huha of it. The heart and head are busy buzzing about the future that is unfolding in front of me, and the way my past is fading behind me.
I miss my Seattle friends and family already. Yet I can hardly wait to get to my 100 acre wood. It just feels so right
