This post will be brief because there’s a lot to do – in the span of the next 3 months, we will wrap up our California life and make our way to Michigan to begin again.
While we’ve considered life beyond the bay from time to time (most people do because living here is difficult in many ways), we had two strong tethers keeping us here – Liam’s connections and David’s father, Dean.
We determined in October that Liam needed a new school. We had only a couple appropriate options here and neither panned out, so we had to expand our search.
In the early hours of March 26th Dean took his last breath. We will honor him properly in due time. For now, we have a bewildering number of tasks to complete in a set amount of time.
To say that we are overwhelmed in every sense feels like an understatement but how else would we convey the magnitude of what we will do in 2023? That will have to suffice.
The good news is that Liam will be attending a school that seems to be an excellent place for him, thank goodness for that. We are looking forward to connecting anew with loved ones in Michigan and to exploring how life may be different in that beautiful green state.
We are grateful for all our wonderful loved ones here in California and we will do our best to stay in touch and return for hugs and high fives from time to time.
Over the years, Dean had a habit of giving us gifts that were more suited to a suburban middle class lifestyle than our over-busy urban one. Somehow I feel that his spirit is cheering us on as we return to a place much closer to where he started out his long life. At some point when he considered moving back he declared that he would dump a bottle of corn syrup down his pants to remind himself that he had no desire to face that humidity ever again. For our part, we’ll have to learn to endure it like so many others do.
We will be making fond farewells over the next 3 months but we have one big Goodbye Gathering planned for Sunday June 4th 1:30-5p at the King School Park (we’ll strive for shade so look there first). If you’re local, please stop by for a bit (bring your own everything).
From 3-4:30, I’ll be engaged with a Sing-A-Long for the musically inclined. (click here for a play list and access to scores and charts in case you want to come prepared)
If you’re more up for chatting, that will be happening too, just a little apart from the musicking.
…Back to where I started…we have a lot of work ahead of us. And we also need to have fun and be connected with our friends. Here’s to more of that going forward!
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