Moving Day,
with a cast of thousands.
Who hasn't had a Moving Day where once the movers come, the Greatest Race on Earth begins?
Daughter Christine had coordinated trailer rental to order up the smoothest move for everyone and everything involved.
And if then housemate Karen hadn't done a rescue days before, gathering and packing all the this 'n that's I hadn't handled, I'd been banished to the woodshed, all good will gone out the door.
When time to bag up cold stuff, I dumb-stared into the frig. Something big was going on having little left to do with moving on. But I didn't have the details till just now...
I was entering a something that required I come Home: Home to all the richness one inherits when your soles are planted on new ground turned and freshly tilled.
And what if there are dreams to seed, especially those I put aside because I'd "gotten old"?
Those speedy moving Muscle Guys had delivered certain items early on, and placed them all so perfectly! I was awed. What used to be a There had been transformed into Here!
Daughter Christine had coordinated trailer rental to order up the smoothest move for everyone and everything involved.
Muscle guys Jason and Noah,
even 6-year old Jaxon,
sprinted items out the door.
When time to bag up cold stuff, I dumb-stared into the frig. Something big was going on having little left to do with moving on. But I didn't have the details till just now...
I was entering a something that required I come Home: Home to all the richness one inherits when your soles are planted on new ground turned and freshly tilled.
And what if there are dreams to seed, especially those I put aside because I'd "gotten old"?
This could shake things up a lot...the Earth could move!
I Feel the Earth Move
Carole King
Now I'm living close to kin. I imagine them as the "Darlin', Babys" of the song, who wouldn't melt "when they look at me that-a-way, Ah ah ah"...??
I Feel the Earth Move
Carole King
Now I'm living close to kin. I imagine them as the "Darlin', Babys" of the song, who wouldn't melt "when they look at me that-a-way, Ah ah ah"...??
Jaxon takes the lead,
Ava throws a
melting glance.
In no time at all, we were there.