I’m Back.

Mov­ing is a dis­rup­tive activ­ity. It made sense that I didn’t get to blog­ging while we were actu­ally in the process of buy­ing and mov­ing. But we have been liv­ing here now since late Octo­ber and I am only now return­ing to the blog. We now live in a beau­ti­ful, old home in Fort Wayne, Indi­ana. I imag­ine there will be a few posts about the house in the near future.

Our com­puter died while we were get­ting ready to move. So we live in a new (96 year old) house, with new com­put­ers, new isp, and now a new year.

Along with all that we pur­chased a new bed and had it deliv­ered as soon as we had pos­ses­sion of the house. We brought up a card table and a cou­ple of fold­ing chairs and then we spent a cou­ple of days here clean­ing before the move (not that the house needed much clean­ing, the pre­vi­ous own­ers left it clean). That first night we retired to the bed­room and turned out the lights.

But the room did not go dark.

We’ve lived in the coun­try for the past twenty years. At that house, when the lights are turned out at night, the room goes dark. Even­tu­ally the eyes adjust and one can barely see by what starlight makes it through the window.

But not here. Here the room is still lit as the light from the street­lights comes threw the shades. A dra­matic difference.

It is no big deal. We can sleep almost any­where. But it was startling.

I imme­di­ately thought of my father.

I grew up in the same house my father grew up in. While grow­ing up, I never even knew which room was Dad’s (Dad wasn’t much about telling sto­ries of his past). Then one day Mom made a com­ment about Dad not being able to sleep in a totally dark room because he grew up sleep­ing in a room with light from the street­light com­ing through the win­dow. Based on that bit of info, I have since assumed that Dad’s room was the room by brother had and that I moved into the day he left for col­lege (kind of rude of me, really).

This is what I remem­ber. I can not swear every detail is true.

Happy New Year to all!

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