After 4 1/2 years in our lovely green house in Highlands Ranch the business, the kitties, and I are moving to a new home. In a couple weeks we'll be in a very nice apartment closer to downtown. While I recognize that few people live in the same house for 30 years anymore a huge part of me is very, very sad. The fact that my ex is so very nonchalant about the whole thing really isn't helping. Yes, the new place was selected after an extensive search and the use of a very cool phone app called Helios, which shows the position of the sun at your current location (or any location really) for whatever day of the year. It even has a compass option so the map rotates as you move around. (And yes, more than one potential landlord gave me very odd looks when I started spinning around like a top while starting alternately at my phone and the windows.)  |
| Helios app |
Anyways, on the merits of its lighting (on the top floor with big east/west facing windows) and its 7 minute walk to the light rail station, the new place was selected last week. Yes, new things bring growth, but the thought of not shooting flowers through the moving leaves of my favorite willow tree or starting my day off by watering all the plants in the yard or watching my chickadees at the bird bath is just depressing. And I won't even get into the weirdness of packing HALF the contents of
the house. (Although my inner magpie was very excited to pick out new
couch pillows, one of of which has a buddha head painted on it in gold.)
Just this morning I was mooning over the upcoming loss of my loft lighting while getting ready for work and found myself quoting Yoda about being mindful in the present instead of always looking to the past and the future. Great, haunted by a decrepit animatronic puppet....I have another 2 1/2 weeks of light through my willow tree; every day should be experienced for itself and not tainted by an imposed sorrow.
And I'm sure Maggie will still perch on my new couch just like she does on the current model.
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