Waking up in Cambridge

Labor Day

It's pretty quiet here this morning, a few birds (jays) screaming, an occasional car. I am sure tomorrow at 6 am will be much busier. Back in Athens, the birds are different sounding and I never hear cars or people. It is cooler here; the windows were open all night. It was really noisy trying to get to sleep. I am a little freaked out though, it is supposed to be 92 here today. So much for getting away from the heat of the South. It will be cooler there the next few days than here.

At home, everything is set up the way I want it. Molli and Tamara have made space for me in their lives. This is a nice apartment, as city living goes. It's two bedrooms, hardwood floors and pretty comfortable. I just have to find my place here and create new routines, similar but different. A friend once admired me for "reinventing myself" over and over...that was kind of born of necessity, about changing my work as one door closed and another opened.

Twelve years ago, we finished building our house in the country and moved in for a more rural experience. We know all our neighbors there. We have gardens and even chickens...and a dog. Now we are thinking of changing that life for a different one, one that involves little or no driving. It will have more time with family, every week if not every day, rather than in lovely visits that are never long enough. What else will it look like? Not sure yet. Getting rid of years of accumulated stuff and living "lighter" and more simply? Will I still bake all our bread? I don't know why not. We don't eat much bread anyway. I could bake all Molli's bread too. But I'll probably wait several days until it cools off.