Five Years On.. The Qualitative
Reflection begins.
This is another personal [but public] journal entry to mark the day.
Five years after “Black Saturday” we have a house that we plan to be in the following Christmas.
I am not sure I fully appreciated the importance of walls and roof until the permanence of those walls and roof were questioned.
We moved in to our new house in June 2013. We spent our first Christmas in our new house. I doubt the builders and architects will ever really understand what this means to us.
A few close friends shared Birthdays and the New Year with us. Words fail..
Five years. Thats 260 weeks. 1825 days. That’s the quantitative. In my post at this time last year, I wondered aloud if my thoughts would ever turn to the qualitative. I think they have.
Counting the numbers, signing the forms, changing jobs, starting a business, awaiting decisions, petitioning politicians, managing finances, moving, planning, moving again, buying, moving again, building, moving again… all this can consume more than one life-time and often has..
The quantitative…. A Kelpie can help change that.
We moved in to our new house in June of 2013. It is a beautiful house. Warm or cool when needed. Insulated, efficient, environmental, protected and protecting, sitting gently on the landscape. Timber, Tin and Stone.
In December of 2013, a pure-breed Australian Kelpie joined my family. A strange little thing happened.. A new house started to feel like home to all of us. For me, it was the first time in almost five years [252 weeks or 1764 days to be precise], that the past gave way to the present.
It is from the present that one perhaps thinks of the future….
On February 7th 2009, our family dog did not make it out of the house with me. In December 2013, we had a new Kelpie. Our family and “red-dogs” have a long association.
I think this may be the beginning of one such association….A long one..
The Odyssey continues…
5 years. Wow. Time has a habit of moving on. Glad you’re all happy in the new “home”. There is no place like home.
Cute dog!!
The new normal with Trevor Barker….
Grace that was beautiful. It made me cry again for all the innocence lost by children that day. How lucky you are to be surrounded by so many people who love you and were able to help you then, and still help you now.