7:00 AM this morning, 5 1/2 hours sleep and I'm strangely refreshed. The tightness in the chest is slowly vanishing, I remind myself with every cigarette that I have to quit. And I remind myself that I have to eat - when did I eat last? Almost 40 hours ago at the airport; there's much to do and it's one step after another...
There is the diminishing of possessions - I have done this, long long ago, strangely satisfying, as if a weight were being lifted from my shoulders. I've listed ads for an antique humpbacked trunk, the giant herb chest (good only for ornament and socks, 300 lbs of solid teak, if unsold this will be it's final move, it must sell as well...), Indian Ships lantern, now to await the interested enquiries ....
The stereo, listed and I received a response identifying the speakers as being cheap knock offs and so I unlisted, took to the Goodwill where upon browsing I found another pair of antique candlesticks, large, about 200 years old, $6.00 the pair and in immaculate condition and so I buy them, there is as well an old gramaphone, 1911, not working, and old habits die hard and so I buy this as well, alternately congratulating and cursing myself all the way home , reassuring myself that it was a "good deal" and yet remembering that I'm downsizing and that as I take it with me, it's only for a while....
8:04, Still rush hour, time to drink my coffee, smoke some more of the duty free (and I must quit, I remind myself), start packing the car and making trips with the infinite small boxes of rubbish, many, many more things to go, books, shelves.
I apologize for the quality of the blogging, it is sliding, has slid, but things have gotten busy and busier and it will be some several weeks before they're back to normal. Bear with me.