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Moving House

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The Chef and I, with the help of a few generous friends and relations and the trusted Wimbledon removals firm, are moving house this weekend. Friday through Monday. I apologize in advance if my posts are short and few during this time, and if I am slow to respond to comments. I love all my darling readers, and cannot wait to come back and share my bookish adventures with you.

Until then, I leave you with this manifestation of how I feel about the actual process of moving.

Woman in top hat, late 1800s

Woman in top hat, late 1800s [Photographer: Unknown Source: Retronaut]

“This house sheltered us, we spoke, we loved within those walls. That was yesterday. To-day we pass on, we see it no more, and we are different, changed in some infinitesimal way. We can never be quite the same again.”-Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

Daily Diversion #137: A Key to the Future…

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…looks like this.

A key to the future

A key to the future.

There are no quotes about moving or change that match the happiness I feel deep in my heart. Our new house is 6 1/2 miles away, but it feels like a different world. An opening into something calm and beautiful. A psychological awakening, ripe with satisfaction and intense anticipation. I can, almost, open my clenched fists. Almost.

Daily Diversion #133: The Last Blooming

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We are moving in a couple of weeks. Next year, my window tree will bloom for someone else. Nothing is permanent, but I will never forget my beautiful friend.

Window Tree Blooming

Window Tree Blooming

“Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.”-Winston Churchill

My Green Friend

My Green Friend

“I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.”-Willa Cather

Daily Diversion #132: Time Spent By Myself, Alone, in a Chair

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If you need me today, I’ll be in this chair: legs thrown over the side, disheveled, peaceful. Reading, sipping tea, staring out open windows. Living life with the timer off. Collecting quotes, not thinking, blissfully unaware. Ruffling doggie ears, painting my toe nails, napping. Tomorrow, I’ll be back. Ready to jump into the fray. But that is in the future and today, today, is about the now.

A great place for solitude

A great place for solitude.

  • “Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
  • In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.”-Albert Camus, The Minotaur
  • “If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.”-Jean-Paul Sartre

Thank you to the lovely Vickie Lester, for reminding me that I do not need permission or justification for taking some alone time.