Endings....

Here we go. It's the end. After seven years in New Mexico, I'm leaving. For now. I'm moving to San Francisco with Anne. I will be posting regular updates about the pleasure of moving, of being part of the grand history of human flux, and remaking my life in a new city. It is bittersweet (New Mexico, not specifically Albuquerque- I could go on about the appalling, money driven, unsustainable growth of this city, but I'll let you fill in the blanks beyond here) the taste of leaving a place that has been very generous. But I can't help but think that there is something more out there. And I can't help but shake up things on a cyclic basis. Shake, shake.

I'm purging a lot of stuff. Stuff I haven't seen since around summer 2001. I have a nice collection of rubbermaid bins (ah, paradise) filled with mainly worthless domestic junk; all of which will be on sale March 4th in a grand yard sale; or tossed. I have a strong urge to purge, y'know? Y'identify? Never a huge consumer, more a parasite of sorts, I've still managed to accumulate a modest amount of real consumer crap not to mention a lot of scrap wood (like the bins, ahhh). So, I've been hangin' at the storage unit just emptying bins into the garbage. I want to be weightless, or almost...

We leave Wednesday for the Bay area looking for a place. I feel less anxious than ever about this move. Satisfied and at ease. In the meantime, must make up for the future lack of NM food, so chile, adovada, sopapillas are being consumed each hour on the hour.