An organization stated that it's ..." core mission - to be good neighbors, good stewards, good ancestors."
I want to belong to places like that!
My son Russ flew (in a plane) all the way to help me pack…he lives 500 miles away. As an engineer at heart, he was wonderful at putting the pottery safely into boxes. And climbing the step ladder to take down curtains, and put those boxes on the now clean shelves.
Just because it’s my creation. Doesn’t mean I need to keep it forever…nor have it possibly outlive me. Thus the shards of many pots go to the dump!
The carefully packed pieces now await my finding a new home living closer to relatives…in another state. I’m waiting for an opening for a senior apartment availability. I don’t expect it to happen for several more months.
Our reward for dealing with all the dust that had accumulated on the pottery, and the shelves, and the curtains! - Ole’s Guacamole for shrimp tacos for me! Southwest tacos for Russ. Since he's planning a vacation in Mexico soon, he practiced his Spanish, what would southwest be? Ah, we had to look it up, suroeste!
Yes, we sat by Flat Creek, gurgling away between us and the Motel 8.
I’m proud to say I’ve only a couple of dings in my flesh so far, from jamming fingers and arms against edges of boxes. This is the cost of having a body which is much older than my thoughts.
Unfortunately Delta Airlines cancelled his flight around noon Sunday, and they cancelled all the other flights from Asheville to Atlanta that day, so he stayed to keep working until Monday noon! My benefit, but who knows what happened to Delta? Nobody so far has said a thing. They were delaying flights into and out of Atlanta due to thunderstorms on Friday when he originally was scheduled from Ohio...it's all up in the air. Ha ha ha. But I want to trust the airline that carries my dear one through the air!
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Are you living life in a way that it will come to a natural end with you in harmony with your inner world and in harmony with the beauty that surrounds? If not, what steps do you need to take?
Heron Dance Journalist, Rod MacIver