Not today but 18 years ago on March 26th, 1997. Checked out of the hotel we'd been living in (4 days previous we'd packed the entire contents of our world, including our car, into a massive moving van), stopped by my mom's for a final goodbye and then headed to the airport to catch a flight to Phoenix. Linda, I, and both of our kids had spent our entire lives in Methuen, MA and now we were headed across country to start all over again.
The past 4 days had been a non-stop going away party. The hotel had a restaurant bar downstairs which we pretty much took over each night. Lots of food, drink, laughter, and tears with family and friends.
I can't freaking believe it was so long ago. Crazy.
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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
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