Late November days...

Back to the house in the roses from a short trip to FL, and mom and dad and Gladys and Miriam and Alma and Julia and all of those precious dear old ladies at mom’s home that have now become part of my dear family too.  I miss them all so much, and miss the Florida sunshine and iridescent mornings under the late November skies...  

Now, I'm carrying with me the moon... close to my heart, because the moon and I share some similarities.  “The moon is a loyal companion.  It never leaves. It’s always there, watching, steadfast, knowing us in our light and dark moments, changing forever just as we do. Every day it’s a different version of itself. Sometimes weak and wan, sometimes strong and full of light. The moon understands what it means to be human." (Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me).                 

Saturday and Sunday, November 11-12, 2017

For two consecutive days we work from sunrise to sundown.  All day Saturday we worked on the lower floors of the house; moving things around, opening up boxes, arranging things into their new places, each drawer, each nook each cabinet and dresser. When the last box in the kitchen area was emptied out and each item organized, and put in their proper place, it was already nighttime.  Our bodies ached like never before, every muscle throbbed, the brain couldn’t think right.  I have never felt this tired in my entire life.  Sunday, it was the same.  This time, we started working on the upper floors, and that ‘dreaded’ room where everything and every stuff we didn’t know exactly what to do with, was piling up—and we tackled it down, like some fretted animal one must run away from, and yet you know it must be confronted, and taken down…  

And finally... like magic… by the end of that day, everything in the entire house was in its proper new place, nicely organized; each box out of the house and into the garage, each little lamp lit, each room sweetly smelling like cinnamon pinecones.      

Everything looked wonderfully clean and organized and the house felt like a brand-new toy you wanted to play with and sleep with....