Motus Mentis

There will be reduced activity here this week, as the lovely Nina and I are fully consumed with the immense task of emptying our Brooklyn house so as to permit a major reconfiguration of its interior space.

Given that our kids have now moved out, and that we are spending more and more of our time about 220 miles ENE of here, we thought it fiscally prudent to reduce our living quarters so as to be able to rent out another floor. The construction project thus entailed involves just about every room in the house, and so they must be stripped bare — and we’re finding that the accumulated detritus of our more than thirty years of residency here would make the Augean Stables look like one of Martha Stewart’s guest bedrooms.

The deadline is Friday morning, at which point we flee to the Outer Cape in a rented truck full of those items too dear to part with, and too large to put in the car. Surveying the chaos tonight, which more closely resembles tsunami wreckage than the gracious home of two civilized people in late middle age, it is hard to imagine that we’ll make it. But these things have a way of working out, somehow.

Anyway, the upshot is that there will in the near term be few opportunities for writing posts, or for responding to comments (though I will do so when I can). Back to normal, I hope, sometime next week.

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