Healing Fall 2020 | Notes Archive »

I don’t know where to begin when it comes to “healing”.  Let’s just say it is an intimate friend to me after the past year: hip replacement, melanoma surgery and management, moving from Middle St to Elm St, Maddy’s death, Covid… But… as the colors become brilliant, I have begun to feel more present.  We are blissfully happy in our new/old house.  Elm St is so multi-faceted, with old behemoth houses transformed into pleasant apartment buildings, the beautiful Episcopal Church, diagonally across the street (a brown shingled building set snug to the ground), Ken Burn’s offices, directly opposite our house, in a wonderful Gothic house, and many sweet old farmhouses on Pleasant St, just across from our front door. From our kitchen window, I watch our squirrels scurrying around - making winter preparations, watch the little boy with his mother exit their apartment in the church building and go off every day to school and work, see familiar dog-walkers stroll by. Though the house is set on a nice knoll, it is near the road and there is a lot happening in a country town. I have spent countless hours in this chair, with my computer and the business of life going on around me. And here, I have begun to quietly heal and soon will join the parade of life outside. Sadly, weather will be changing, but now, it is glorious. 

And then, there’s the election. Hopefully, we will have an answer on that in two weeks, but even the sanctity of an election’s outcome is in danger. I won’t proselytize, but will only say that I would love to see a return to decency in our beloved country — an end to the grotesque behavior we have witnessed for the past four years.

A word about our business: I’m so proud of the antiques community, making the very best of an awful interruption in normalcy by holding on-line shows and auctions, supporting our media with advertising, holding by-the-rules outdoor events, and keeping it all together. We all still want to buy and sell and we can find the ways together. Since we moved on March 23, we have found so many sweet things for our new digs. It’s been challenging, but great fun.

So, for now, we happily enjoy the supreme beauty of autumn in NH and begin to think about bringing Christmas into our nest. This house has very strong opinions and I’ll have to listen carefully to its directions.

Yesterday, I went out with my camera and snapped some pictures.
I hope you enjoy them, taken around our house and town.