A dear and kind friend sent me these quotes that she had collected for another friend who had to move from her home of 35 years:
A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely
unhappen.
Edward de Bono
Remember, what you possess in the world will be found at the day of your
death to belong to someone else, but what you are will be yours forever.
Henry van Dyke
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward
change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength
undefeatable.
Helen Keller
Thank you, Michele.
Today is one year to the day that I walked out of my home, studio and garden for the last time. The workers that were there to do over the house for the jackals who were hoping to flip the house for a quick profit had already popped the lock on the front door and ripped out swaths of the gardens so there was little time or opportunity to take one last look- it had stopped being my home quite a while before and was merely a holding box while I secured a new place to live.
But I do miss the starry skies, the birds, the goldfish pond, and the crickets, I miss them every evening.
Here is what I live with now:
"according to the sergeant on duty, at about 1:42 am, [Kingston Police] received a noise complaint at BSP (Back Stage Productions, just down the block from my apartment). Officers sent a group of persons who were standing outside back in, noting that there were about 200-250 people inside. At 2:55am they received another call for noise which turned out to be a fight inside the premise which was spilling outside. Due to the large number of people involved, all of [Kingston Police] shift and some officers from the Town of Ulster and UC Sheriff's Dept. responded. The crowd was eventually dispersed[4am] and three young females were arrested for disorderly conduct... Also, a guy showed up at the hospital with a large cut on his back that [Kingston Police] strongly suspect he suffered at BSP but he didn't cooperate with [Kingston Police]."
All I can do today is look forward and keep putting one foot in front of the other, and trust that that is what I am supposed to be doing.
