Friday, July 28, 2006
Friday July 28, 2006 - Year 4, Day 129 - time to get moving
13C/57F, clearing sky & cooler from overnight rain; walking in the park listening to drops falling off leaves hit the ground creating a special kind of music, a moving melody
DL stopped by for (& brought) dinner last night - thanks heaps, nice to see you & great to catch up; long overdue catch up with Ann (AI) from Idaho the other night, empty nested at last & exploring a move to Whidby Island so lookout NC & CH, there is a beautiful drumming bear making woman headed your way
my mind divided this morning between work-week & week-end thoughts; too much to do to allow myself to postpone it all to next week countered by too strong an urge to get on with my weekend plans & maybe squeeze in 9 holes too . . oh bother, what to do
as I walked I witnessed moving activities at houses marked sold, U-hauls & big vans cruising the neighbourhood I am reminded what kind of weekend this is
a mid-summer moving weekend, which is profoundly different from moving weekends in any other season
a mid-summer dream, or a mid-summer nightmare depending on circumstances
both of these circumstances are scenarios I have known – both run through my mind this morning as movers come & go in my neighbourhood on this ‘moving weekend’
June 30 & August 31 are popular moving dates driven, for the most part, by the academic year for people with children, but who moves at the end of July?
I think people who move at the end of July do it more out of drama than necessity, more out of joy & pain than planning; I might be wrong but I cannot imagine anyone moving in the heat of midsummer unless they have to
some just HAVE TO because they cannot stay a moment longer
others because they CANNOT WAIT a moment longer
drama attaches, positively or negatively – but it attaches, when people are merging homes & lives or when they are disassembling them
moving is stressful enough, work enough, sweat enough without compounding it with emotions that go beyond 'leaving a place or someone you love' or moving to 'a dream home or a dreamy mate'; it is about leaving somewhere or someone because you have to, must do & can do nothing else - in which case the heat & sweat are not important
others are rushing to rush being together which is delightful to watch, more delightful to be a part of & dangerous on so many levels
a moving weekend it will be – for many that will involve a truck, for many more it will involve something else; words like ‘the earth moved’ should be reserved for real earth-tremours; for friends & lovers who’ve not met yet it could be a moving weekend . . who knows?
summer, it would seem, will be half over this weekend as July morphs to August; it seems the heat & desire to play, the desire to ignore all work no matter how crucial, the desire to wax eloquently, the desire for desire - well it seems we are just getting warmed up & the mid point is here already
are you being moved?
will you be moved?
I don't plan to pack a thing or be living anyplace different by Monday, but it might be nice to be moved
a moving summer weekend begins, who can wait a minute longer?
time to get moving
Mark
DL stopped by for (& brought) dinner last night - thanks heaps, nice to see you & great to catch up; long overdue catch up with Ann (AI) from Idaho the other night, empty nested at last & exploring a move to Whidby Island so lookout NC & CH, there is a beautiful drumming bear making woman headed your way
my mind divided this morning between work-week & week-end thoughts; too much to do to allow myself to postpone it all to next week countered by too strong an urge to get on with my weekend plans & maybe squeeze in 9 holes too . . oh bother, what to do
as I walked I witnessed moving activities at houses marked sold, U-hauls & big vans cruising the neighbourhood I am reminded what kind of weekend this is
a mid-summer moving weekend, which is profoundly different from moving weekends in any other season
a mid-summer dream, or a mid-summer nightmare depending on circumstances
both of these circumstances are scenarios I have known – both run through my mind this morning as movers come & go in my neighbourhood on this ‘moving weekend’
June 30 & August 31 are popular moving dates driven, for the most part, by the academic year for people with children, but who moves at the end of July?
I think people who move at the end of July do it more out of drama than necessity, more out of joy & pain than planning; I might be wrong but I cannot imagine anyone moving in the heat of midsummer unless they have to
some just HAVE TO because they cannot stay a moment longer
others because they CANNOT WAIT a moment longer
drama attaches, positively or negatively – but it attaches, when people are merging homes & lives or when they are disassembling them
moving is stressful enough, work enough, sweat enough without compounding it with emotions that go beyond 'leaving a place or someone you love' or moving to 'a dream home or a dreamy mate'; it is about leaving somewhere or someone because you have to, must do & can do nothing else - in which case the heat & sweat are not important
others are rushing to rush being together which is delightful to watch, more delightful to be a part of & dangerous on so many levels
a moving weekend it will be – for many that will involve a truck, for many more it will involve something else; words like ‘the earth moved’ should be reserved for real earth-tremours; for friends & lovers who’ve not met yet it could be a moving weekend . . who knows?
summer, it would seem, will be half over this weekend as July morphs to August; it seems the heat & desire to play, the desire to ignore all work no matter how crucial, the desire to wax eloquently, the desire for desire - well it seems we are just getting warmed up & the mid point is here already
are you being moved?
will you be moved?
I don't plan to pack a thing or be living anyplace different by Monday, but it might be nice to be moved
a moving summer weekend begins, who can wait a minute longer?
time to get moving
Mark
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