Half of the house is packed up. The other half is going to be packed up today. Bob flies into El Paso tomorrow afternoon from Portland to join us in saying good-bye to this sacred place and also to travel to our new destination with us.
Bob and I were talking last night about how this move has seemed so much harder than the last, and yet we will have been apart for a lot shorter of a time than when we moved from Ohio to New Mexico. We couldn't figure out why this move feels so much different. I guess the only explanation I can come up with is that as time ages a person it teaches her (or should anyway) what she values the most. It teaches him what he is not willing to live without. For Bob and I the things that we value and cannot live without is our family. . We are not complete without one another and the empty space that is left when part of our family is missing is too much. We value what we have built layer upon layer, memory upon memory, year upon year. This family is the most important thing that each of us has, and it is something that we no longer care to be without for any extended period of time.
I am looking forward to tomorrow when Bob walks in the door of our home and we will once again be a complete and whole family. Together we can do anything. Our lives up to this point are a grand testimony of that. Together we can go anywhere. And I would go anywhere as long as we are together.
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