Lovely! This comes at a fitting time (autumn) and for me, just days after the K-12, 3-story brick school of my childhood was leveled. Demolished. "It's just a building." The memories remain. So, whassup with the empty spaces? The weight of any regrets should be lifted, right? It's all dust now.

For you, at least, the house you will vacate will stand for years to come, whoever else may live under its roof, however many new children may be born there, and however many mistakes the parents may make. And they will make mistakes. We all do. Hindsight is 20/20. We may have trusted our intuition, only to wish we'd listened to our elders. Or we may have listened to our elders and failed to heed our own intuition.

Well, you set off a lot of thoughts and feelings with this one! Bravo!