We've been evicted. Other phrases will be used, and other folks will pretend it was inevitable, but there it is...my family is being removed from our home in the interest of more worthy tenants. To say I'm disappointed would be an accurate description for this Orwellian turn of events. That said, it offered a sliver of hope for a vacation that I haven't heard pass through my chief roommate's lips for years.
The eviction also gave me permission to ditch three waterskis that I've been carrying around the country for the past eighteen years. I finally took them out of the garage and put them in a dumpster, and it felt good to be free of them. Perhaps this reaction was a bit wasteful, but at the end of the day it was the original purchase that was a bit wasteful. Keeping them around long past their usefulness also wasted space, fuel, time, and raised my sense of anxiety unnecessarily. They are finally gone, and it's because someone has decided that someone else is a better class of client for the house we've somewhat happily occupied for the better part of three years.
One thing the eviction did not change was the sunrise.
The liquid gold on the river still spilled out over the horizon just like it will again tomorrow. It was a bit cloudy this evening, but the sunrise will happen tomorrow as sure as it's happened for millennia, and with any manner of luck and planning I'll be in a place to enjoy it. I hope that the overcast cooperates, but even if I can't see this glorious unfolding it will happen with certainty.
The eviction also gave me permission to ditch three waterskis that I've been carrying around the country for the past eighteen years. I finally took them out of the garage and put them in a dumpster, and it felt good to be free of them. Perhaps this reaction was a bit wasteful, but at the end of the day it was the original purchase that was a bit wasteful. Keeping them around long past their usefulness also wasted space, fuel, time, and raised my sense of anxiety unnecessarily. They are finally gone, and it's because someone has decided that someone else is a better class of client for the house we've somewhat happily occupied for the better part of three years.
One thing the eviction did not change was the sunrise.
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| Slumbering 'Yaks - Anacostia River - Washington DC |
I don't know what lies around the corner in terms of our next spot to live, but I know that the adventure will start tomorrow, and I'm looking forward to opening this new chapter in my life.
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