Just a quick post, but a fun thing that not many people know about my home in Wilsonville – I can see the stars from my bedroom!
Well, okay. They’re not really stars, they’re those cute little glow in the dark stars that you can put up on the ceiling.
But you know what? It’s the little things in life that make the biggest difference. The fun of the mundane, and the simple good that we experience and pass on. For me, getting to fall asleep every night staring at constellations only visible from this one vantage point was one of those simple goods.
Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday – April 24th, April 25th, and April 26th, all in 2024
I am a sentimental creature, by nature. I may have mentioned that recently, but it rang especially true over the last few days.
I have been emotionally tumultuous through the last day’s that I’ve spent in the town that had been my home for the last four years. I was holding it together pretty well until I took the photos down from the walls of my apartment – but once the photos of my friends, family, and adventures came down… So to did my emotional walls.
I wasn’t able to cry, which almost made it worse. All I felt was a hole deep inside my soul, radiating raw sadness and loneliness at the sight of my emptying apartment.
It was my apartment, not my home. My home was warm and comfortable, with welcoming photos of smiling family watching over me. My apartment is sterile, with blank white walls and moving boxes against the walls, blocking off the couch.
At the same time, I was elated! I’d be on a plane to Greenland by this time next week, and I’d be well on my adventure this time next month!! I had tours of glacier caves booked, and countless other adventures simply awaiting my arrival in time!
The best way I’ve found to describe this was that I’ve finally left my anchor behind… But, without that anchor holding me steady to the seafloor, I’m careening from one wave to another, through peaks and troughs.
I can feel the waves calming, though, and writing all of these “going away” posts has helped me out quite a bit. So too has taking and reviewing some final pictures from Wilsonville… a last set from my walks around the town that’s been so good to me.
Not only are my peas springing up like madmen, and my Sunflowers growing tall and strong, but they have new siblings! The lupin I planted is sprouting, but also… Hops vines are climbing!
Yay plants!
The Hardest part of gardening is coming up, though… soon enough I’ll have to thin the herd :'(
