On Moving and Being Nice
[present house, fireplace guys] We move tomorrow afternoon, and this morning I took one last run through our little neighborhood. I saw a family of wild turkeys (?), a mama and two baby turkeys, on the side of the road as if waiting for a bus. We've loved our neighborhood, and not for the wildlife, since that's rare, but because it's just beautiful here. And on my run I was thinking about all that's happened here in the last year. A lot, that's what. So much that it doesn't feel like there's time to go into detail before I go to work, but work is part of it. Sam and I weathered the bad job situation here. [note from sam on our front door chalkboard in the very depths of the bad job.] I got the new job, the good job, which is still good. I've dropped nearly forty pounds in the last while, which is really a just a physical sign of bigger changes inside my head, in how I think about mys