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Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.
Mon, 29 Oct 2007
Back In The Saddle
Sorry for the quiet month blog-wise. I've been utterly enjoying a
new home and a new neighborhood, watching my beloved son make new
friends and seeing him actually
looking forward to going to school. And not just him; I have a
buddy a block away to share coffee in the morning and an occasional
beer in the evening while we fix the problems of the world to our
satisfaction. We trade meals and lies, and Ryan plays w/ the dog. It's
also a great bike riding neighborhood, and people actually smile and
say hello as you pass. There are pecans everywhere. I bet
that there's half a bushel in my little 30 x 30 front yard
alone. Makes sense; my dad says that this area was once a huge
commercial pecan grove, back when he was a kid.
It is really a satisfying time of relief and rejuvenation; after a
particularly difficult and ill-fated few months, things could not be
developing in any better a direction than right here and now. I feel a
sense of community here that I haven't seen in perhaps thirty
years. It feels like home, and I am grateful to Mama Universe for
providing such an amazing turnaround in our lives. It has all clicked
together so easily that it's difficult not to believe in what feels
like a supernatural intervention at play here... it's as if somewhere
a dam broke, and all good things started flowing freely in our
direction. Today is the second month anniversary of Ryan's mother's
death, and in that 60 days we've gone from bereaved, panicked and
all-but at a complete loss, to supported, free and very much at
home. It's not just as if we moved to a new city, although there is
that feel; it's as if we've moved to a new civilization, a
better, kinder one. We're utterly blessed.
So, anyway, I'll be pecking out stuff on the keyboard here much
more regularly now. I've been formulating a relatively detailed post
to put up soon; not a very pretty one either. Over the last couple of
weeks or so, I've noticed a sort of a synchronicity in widely
disparate articles on climate change that have me genuinely scared. I
don't want to besmirch my happy post today with a sky-is-falling
essay, so I'll save that for another time.
Here's hoping that you are having a wonderful day today.
Posted at 13:05 by Randy Kirchhof [Permalink]
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Wed, 10 Oct 2007
Hoo-Wee
We are into the new place; the moving is done. Now the unpacking
begins. And, naturally, it's one of the busiest weeks (and earliest
show times) of the year at the club. I am just inundated at the
moment.
But it's all good. In fact, it's more than that; it's the best it's
been in years. I'll talk more about it soon, when I catch my breath.
Posted at 11:50 by Randy Kirchhof [Permalink]
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Fri, 05 Oct 2007
Moving Is Such Fun
And that's what we're doing over here for the next few days. I'll
tell you all about it when we're in the new place.
Posted at 09:59 by Randy Kirchhof [Permalink]
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