I have gained and lost perspective so many times in the past two months it is hard to know which way is forward and which way is back. Rudy or we have come to know him around here as #STFURudy because of the comments – “Boy, Tin is going to have a hard time adjusting to this smaller place” to “Man, you better be glad you’re selling this place and getting out.” Then there was the new guy and he also got the #STFU hashtag but he was helping me move so I didn’t respond. “Are you selling? How could you sell this place? Do you realize 8 people could live here – this place is huge? How will you live in this small apartment?” #STFUMovingGuy.<\/p>\n
I swear if I weren’t so weary I would laugh or cry or both, but there is still packing to be done. <\/p>\n
PACKING BOXES<\/p>\n
For weeks she\u2019d worked on the packing up of boxes, I have gained and lost perspective so many times in the past two months it is hard to know which way is forward and which way is back. Rudy or we have come to know him around here as #STFURudy because of the comments – “Boy, Tin is going to have a hard time adjusting to this smaller place” to “Man, you better be glad you’re selling this place and getting out.” Then there was… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-4C3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17735"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17737,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17735\/revisions\/17737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\ndelighting at first in the careful ordering of books,
\nhidden gems rediscovered, but as the days wore on
\nand the piles rose ever higher,
\nshe doubted she could stem the flood of objects,
\nendless stuff,
\nremembered plans that never happened,
\nchapters opened but long since reached The End,
\nand even as she worked, furiously,
\nto cram down objects, dreams, and messed up memories,
\nshe feared it wasn\u2019t possible
\nto pack up a life,
\nstacked neatly into boxes then sealed and neatly labelled,
\nand craved the vastness of a
\nhold
\nto put it all away, contained and containable,
\nso the objects of her life could be moved and then:
\nunspill,
\nand stream out roudily,
\nuntidily unstoppable,
\ndripping with memories,
\nteeming with the signs of a life lived openly,
\nlovingly,
\nthe boxes
\ncrammed with the
\ndetritus of the mess we make
\nwhen we open up our hearts,
\nand live life without the labels.
\n~Joanna Paterson<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"