Mar 13
Downsized
Leave your house
lose your pets
sell your stuff
downsize to just
a rented apartment
change in career
(not mine)
choices made
another journey
has begun
children uprooted
new job
lost friends
smaller walls
just numb
Pamela Olson, 3/13/08
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Feels like a lot of people went this route this week. Very obvious I think, as the words almost seemed to call for it.
Yeah, I couldn’t find a way to be really creative with the words this week, so I rehashed my move to Georgia for my husband to attend seminary. Maybe next week’s words will be more inspiring.
Your poem really struck “home” with me, as I get older and feel that as we age we can’t always manage everything we took on in our youth–big house–pets. Downsizing can have a liberating feel to it as well. Freedom from all the “stuff” that we seem to accumulate over the years.
This is going to happen to me i amonth or so! Touched by it!
Can it get any worse than this?
Ugh. As much as I hate living in my house, I know it’s gonna be a horror story when I leave.
this is becoming an all to familair scenario in these tought times for young families… i do hope it all worked out for you in the end… it always saddens me when people move and their pets become expendable tho…
Paisley, it did work out and it was a cleansing to get rid of so much (not the pets- that was unfair but necessary). My husband finished seminary in 2001 and we are back in a house with three cats and two dogs.
Life changes…some we create, some are thrust upon us. And we adapt and we “downsize”. This was quite good!
oh man, at 3 this morning when the little kitty dinah was running over my bed and wanted to play and the dog was chasing her.. umm, i was thinking i am so outta here!!!… everybody out… and it was trash day yesterday… too bad… how poignant a poem…