There has been a good reason I haven’t been posting. It’s not that I’m moving, or rather, it’s not that I’m packing boxes and I swear the Sims 3 is not keeping me from posting. It’s that I’m moving and there are not so little cracks in the denial that are breaking my heart.
Sunday the “Boise Bucket List” was officially finished. My friend who had come to stay and help with the yard sale had treated my husband and me to Mai Thai the night before. Then we all had brunch at Red Feather where, unbelievably, we got to hear Thomas Paul play (something I didn’t dare hope for enough to even put on the list) while eating our yummy breakfast and in my case drinking my bottomless mimosas and then having that last ritzy martini (it was five o’clock somewhere).
We went to Julia Davis Park just so I could dip my feet into the Boise River. I shed a few tears on the ride home.
There are too many people, not enough time, there will have to be a massive “goodbye email” and it stings. But it also warms because in the last twelve years I’ve gone from friendless in an unknown city to overflowing in a home town.
I have a new hometown to look forward to, and baby you have a big place in my heart to fill.
The hardest part is the hole that's left when you say good by. You really have made Boise your home, part of your life. Boise is like that; it's always been my favorite city--that is, until I visited Eugene. There's an atmosphere there of activity, awareness, LIVING that I've not experienced in any other place. Where else can you walk to a coffee shop where you pick up a vegan pastry while filling your brought-from-home coffee mug? What other city do you know of that has banned styrofoam containers? Where else is the hustle and bustle of car traffic equal to that of walking and bike traffic? Ah, Eugene . . .
ReplyDeleteI think I'd be sad about the moving to a new city part (as opposed to the missing my old city part) if it wasn't Eugene. I love Eugene! It's a wonderful place and I'm so happy that's where we are going. And everytime I talk to my sister we both just scream a little!
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