CHANGE | Ecency

Starting my day with a walk in the park before anyone else is there is always special. The morning was overcast, humid, and a bit too warm to be really comfortable, but all that was replaced with peace and silence.

Mike, the dog, gets a little slower every day as the weather gets warmer, and he paced his way along our normal morning route without much interest. His nose is usually to the ground and alert for any new scents, but the humidity must have diminished the leftovers from yesterday, so there were few distractions for him and he trudged along slowly and watched an occasional bird flit by.

The sky was overcast with very low banks of fog that were probably only a few hundred feet thick but they made a comfortable, twilight blanket for the morning and muffled the sounds of cars on the nearby road. Being Saturday, most of the drivers were off this morning and that added to the seven AM peace.

Just before reaching my driveway when returning home, my next door neighbor and good friend, Bill, was walking his two small dogs and I stopped between our driveways to chat. They had listed their house for sale last Friday and it sold in less than one day! They had returned to remove the last of their furniture this weekend and then leave for good. After 27 years of being good neighbors and friends, it is a sad moment for me and the Significant Other to see them leave. Our occasional meetings for dinner always resulted in the best intellectual discussions of my recent adult life and I will truly miss that.

When I got home, the S.O. was out walking the two new dogs, Bella and Coco, and they had left a note on the back door for me and Mike.

Home is going to feel strange knowing that our friends will no longer be across the creek and through the woods. New people will move in and things will change.