Day 357

December 23, 2021

And the Vibe gets passed on.

This is my auto history of the past 16 years.  For those of you at my 40th birthday party do you remember how many car stories were told that evening?  I just remember the biggest pattern across peoples' stories were my cars.  

I drove up to the rookery for the last time in the Vibe today to say good bye. It was 11:07 and 28 and very sunny.  

In the Vibe

I've come to honor this car

The last 2 years you've been my home

bringing me to this sacred spot,

daily in 2020, almost daily in 2021

I started writing and a red tailed landed in the high naked tree just long enough for me to drop my pen and pick up my camera.  The Vibe sits up high,  the Jetta is sportier which changes my photographic action.  

I brought the car back and cleaned a lot of it out and got too sad and took a nap.  Seems to be my routine of the week.  

Thomas came and we drove the car to Warwick and came back here to fix the dryer, which I think he figured out.  I'm impressed.  I try really hard not to depend on him too much, but sometimes he's just my hero, if only for an hour.  

I want to acknowledge this time of year as the time to embrace family and to let it soak into your bones to generate another year of power and energy.  Soak in those hugs, take in song, (oh song you are what I miss the most) wallow in those smiles.  This time of year allows us the time to stop and do that.

Unfortunately, grief anniversaries appear, too, and you have to respect them, as well.  But one does not negate the other, that really is the secret.

A special place for the sparrows to return, they'll come home in May.  Meanwhile, who will perch upon the wall when the sun is so direct?

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