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The noise stopped abruptly at one. I was already in bed so I didn't go to the window to see if the cops had come.
I wonder if I should go give them a motherly talk about the difference between a neighborly loud party and an excruciating one?
My ears were seriously hurting by the time I went to bed. Really, I don't mind hearin somebody's music clearly through my windows. That's okay, it makes the neighborhood sound alive. Ditto for the sound of laughter and merrymaking. But there is a threshold.
Nothing about it in the online Sentinel. I don't get the paper one anymore, a decision I mildly regret from time to time, since their online presence is paltry.
I wonder if I should go give them a motherly talk about the difference between a neighborly loud party and an excruciating one?
My ears were seriously hurting by the time I went to bed. Really, I don't mind hearin somebody's music clearly through my windows. That's okay, it makes the neighborhood sound alive. Ditto for the sound of laughter and merrymaking. But there is a threshold.
Nothing about it in the online Sentinel. I don't get the paper one anymore, a decision I mildly regret from time to time, since their online presence is paltry.
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I've been through this noise business many times. It is so hard to decide when to call, when to talk to folks, when to ignore, how to keep it all from escalating....
Prague at Xmas sounds like an adventure worthy of reshaping life and work and family.
Mom's funeral was on Thursday. Have been in family mode before and til now. I'm sad and tender and now have to reenter stressful work. But the prize is first, Sweden, and then sabbatical.
Till we meet! Love, Katie
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After the funeral is such a strange time, isn't it? There's really nothing to do at all. But nothing isn't right either.
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I had only a few things to do for funeral itself -- and friends did most of the work for reception after -- although I did do some cooking and shopping and such --
The graveside service was amazing -- Arlington knows how to hold a funeral! The ceremony was brief -- and these folks do it all the time -- but never felt automatic or just another time -- it felt utterly personal and heartfelt.
And the day was spectacular! Cool but sunny with fall colors everywhere. Just the nicest thing.
Just beginning the more painful feelings -- all mixed up into life and other things inseparably -- love to you.