Removing My Website

Enjoy the best first! (Actually, just enjoy the best. The rest isn't for you.) The privileges of flight this week held stony vistas. I remember the days when I snuck my "real" camera out of hiding to take photos from the airplane window. In those days, it was like computers now--stowed during takeoff and landing. Today? Cell phones! On one of the many flights in the last week (7 in total), the familiar script caught my attention:   "In the event of an emergency, leave all personal items and proceed to the nearest exit." It sounds like the rapture to me. It also sounds a little like my life. I diverted my attention so I wouldn't have to divert tears momentarily. Lesson 1: Leave and Proceed or Peacekeeping vs. Peacemaking My knee-jerk reaction went to the current situation with my house.   Leave all personal items and proceed to the nearest exit.   Yep. That's what I had to do. Even now, my body responds with a flush of adrenaline--I think it's adrenal...

  Good news has arrived ... the piano can be saved! Monday, September 25, 2023, the text came: "What's the status of the Kulsethmoe piano?" My uncle's question sank into me--deep. It came back up to my throat with my heart in a stranglehold, and I chewed the cud of it. The imagination of the precious musical wood and the intricate mechanics infested to the point of destruction wrung tears out of my being. My dad, my family, all of us are connected to this piano. I didn't want to lose one more thing--especially something from my dad, who passed away in very recent years. I texted, "It's possible it may be saved," while I wept. I explained that the person quoting the options to me was also a pianist and knew the importance of instruments. He had rescued other pianos. Fast forward to today--Tuesday, October 17, 2023--three weeks (and a day) later. This text came from the project manager: "The piano can be saved" (to which I replied my ultimate...