{"id":32,"date":"2008-09-04T23:54:45","date_gmt":"2008-09-05T03:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/?p=32"},"modified":"2008-09-04T23:54:45","modified_gmt":"2008-09-05T03:54:45","slug":"moving-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/?p=32","title":{"rendered":"Moving Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The walls are bare, but for the nails where once artistic oddities hung.\u00c2\u00a0 Bookshelves are barren, and indeed de-shelved, and flanked by boxes filled with the tomes that once filled them.\u00c2\u00a0 Whirls of dust have free run of the place in the final days.\u00c2\u00a0 Saturday is The Day, officially and essentially, though some things are already there and others will not leave until after.\u00c2\u00a0 Saturday, it&#8217;s all those heavy boxes, and the furniture, and we reach the meat of the ending of a thing.<\/p>\n<p>As one things ends, another begins.\u00c2\u00a0 That whole cycles of life thing.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no sadness.\u00c2\u00a0 Anticipation, yes, and some excitement, a certain thrill at the unknown, and even some trepidition.\u00c2\u00a0 The things that are important move with.\u00c2\u00a0 The extraneous stuff, the unnecessaries and best forgottens, get left behind.\u00c2\u00a0 A bit or piece may get lost in transit, but there&#8217;s time enough for reclaiming.<\/p>\n<p>And there&#8217;s that new beginning waiting.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not a long distance move.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s not a high pressure or get-it-done-now move.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s merely a transition.\u00c2\u00a0 A change of environment.\u00c2\u00a0 A shift of perspective.\u00c2\u00a0 A rebalancing of life.<\/p>\n<p>Time to remember what matters most.<\/p>\n<p>Time to take stock, remember and put to rest.<\/p>\n<p>Time to write.<\/p>\n<p>It feels more momentous than it really is, I&#8217;m sure.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s no trans-Pacific move, like the last time.<\/p>\n<p>What happens next?\u00c2\u00a0 Where do I go?\u00c2\u00a0 Where do you go?\u00c2\u00a0 Where do we go?\u00c2\u00a0 You may say it&#8217;s the next step in the journey.\u00c2\u00a0 I say, and I steal these words: <I>the chase is afoot<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Watch this space.\u00c2\u00a0 Tell your friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The walls are bare, but for the nails where once artistic oddities hung.\u00c2\u00a0 Bookshelves are barren, and indeed de-shelved, and flanked by boxes filled with <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/?p=32\" title=\"Moving Day\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}