Late
dusk. The boys are upstairs finishing their baths and readying for bed. You are
sitting in the recliner in the living room. Carol is at Gayle's just south of
Worthington. Carol called earlier and ask you and Kim to bring her and Gayle
fresh doughnuts from Schneider's in Westerville. Kim has been working with
homes in the area and after just a short time of a week or so you think an Econ
home is more your style for a variety of good reasons. The problem is the
price; they are quite expensive, but partly you are paying for the sense of
community of older adults. In the long run, you feel you and Carol would have
more in common with these people and perhaps more easily make acquaintances. You
would only need one car. - Amorella
2034 hours. Kim gets me pumped to move because we would be closer to
them, and we would be back 'home' where we began our life adventure together,
Otterbein and Westerville. It's not so much sentimentality as it is closure. We
are going to be buried here, so it seems natural to want to spend our last
years here. Our great-grandparents, some of them, were farmers and had land in
Delaware County and the Westerville area. Consciousness raised from the nearby
earth and returning to nearby earth. Seems natural and right to me. I suppose this
is so in my heartansoulanmind also. (2043)
It would appear this is so in
heartansoulanmind; but the hesitation is in how Carol may feel about the
moving. To you this has to be a joint decision of two heartsansoulsanminds not
one. Here is my, the Amorella's suggestion -- let this 'moving' play itself
along until you both decide. Think of this as a replay of how it was making the
decision whether to stay in Brazil after two years to an extended stay of two
more and then perhaps move on to another international school, say in Europe
for another two or four years, then return to the States in the late seventies
or early eighties to find teaching positions in well-known private or public schools to fill out the rest of
your careers and have a family along the way. - Amorella
2054 hours. I like this, Amorella; why, because we have done this before
and we do not regret our actions.
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