Sunday

So here's a picture of our puppy Enzo.  He slept 6 hours last night, bringing us a little closer to our goal of having him sleep through the night before Mark leaves for Colorado.  It's going to be close.  It's a damn good thing he's cute.

A realtor is coming over today to talk with us about putting the condo on the market.  So this morning, we clean.  I started putting away some of the little stuff that makes our home our home...little Budda statues, wine bottles from fondly remembered times, driftwood sculptures, old-glass vases, singing bowls and dozens and dozens of rocks:  round granite stones from Maine, galets roules from Chateauneuf-du-Pape, caymanite from Little Cayman, pebbles from Mendocino...so many rocks!  In my next life I'm destined to be a geologist.  Anyway, other folks might not be as charmed by our collections of stuff, so away it goes.  As I put the little felt beet that Laura gave me in a box yesterday I smiled to think of it emerging in its new home in Boulder.

Mark decided to not try to get back to Hartford for the half marathon, even though he's been training really well all summer.  Maybe a 10k out in CO this fall.  I started Insanity at home (it's a workout, not a state of mind--usually).  Gotta squeeze it in.

The reality of our departure is hitting some people we love really hard.  I think that it may be harder to be the ones being left than it is to be the ones leaving.  I only hope that we can stay in touch and offer a great place (and reason) to visit.  It's really something for me to realize that I am entitled to make decisions about my own life that will upset the status quo, but that it's ok for me to do that.  Neither of us is particularly adept at upsetting the apple cart due to decisions that we make in our best interest.  So we hope that we're being sensitive and compassionate to those we love while still pursuing our interests and dreams.  We feel quite sobered by the decision to move, but also very brave.  And we have so much love and gratitude for the support we're getting from people who know and love us.