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[mamculuna]

My sister is moving out of the house she's lived in for thirty years. One of my best friends is ending a marriage of fifty years. Two people on my friends list are moving, two or three more are ending marriages. Two more have just retired. A few are getting married or moving in together.

I've had my turn at all of those, and can't say I envy them the work and loss and pain involved, but when something huge happens in your life, you become a new person. At times like these, I notice how much junk I've accumulated, both in my house and in my head, and understand why nature throws storms around the way she does.

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[masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com]

When my dad was in the hospital and the doctors said he wouldn't last but a few more months, my mom got my brother and I working on cleaning out their house. This was their sixth house together, which means a lot of moving around, and yet they still had the accumulation of 47 years together in there--memementos, paper work, and just...stuff.

It took us months to get through it all, winnowing it down to what my mom could have in a 700-square foot one-bedroom apartment.

So much change and transition this year for us. So I know of that which you speak.

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

It's so hard when it's happening. And especially since you'd just moved, and so many other things are happening. I'm sure you're overdue for a good long spell of calm weather.

[masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com]

I just want to get my mom settled in her new place, then build a new routine for myself. Hopefully something that can include a lot of down time for rest and relaxation.

[usedtobeljs]

I'm watching one of my best friends go through a divorce right now, only a few months after she lost her mother (her father died ten years ago) and her adult married daughter moved away. It's been painful for her to peel away layers of habit as well as accumulations of things, but she seems to be finding out a great deal about herself.

I'm a year and a few months away from one of those birthdays ending in '0, and I'm trying to manage that kind of skin- and thing-shedding as well. So far, it's not going terribly well, but we persevere. ;-)

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

I was thinking about hurricanes and how terrible they are, and yet (looking at our beach yard, 20 years after Hugo), how they make it possible for new things to grow...

I turned 65 last year, but in spite of Medicare, it didn't really shake up my world. That seems to happen wrinkle by wrinkle--which is also a good way to change, but the hurricane/revolution/divorce thing is so noticeable!

[altaego.livejournal.com]

I can't believe you are 65 after meeting you in person. I guess 65 just looks a lot better than I'd imagined. That is good to know.


I'm hoping our country can get a bit of that change and cleaning out of the old junk soon after the end of the year.

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

Heh! Thanks.

So ready for an Obamacane! Start anew!

[maeve-rigan.livejournal.com]

I certainly have noticed an urge to move things around, get rid of certain things, etc. YARD SALE is looming large on my horizon.

Obamacane! LOL! Yes.

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

Yard sale good! (Used husband, needs repair, will cut price...)