Leaving behind the memories when you move
By adamg - Tue, 06/30/2009 - 8:03am.
Michael Ball reports he's moving from JP to another Boston neighborhood, and that means leaving behind all the memories - and two pets buried in the backyard, including a beloved cat:
... Eventually, we let the vet do the kind and evil deed and buried Tang with his cat bed and blanket far down where we planted a cherry tree as a living marker.
Our small house, which I love and my wife long ago tired of, has the predictable memories. Each wall, sometimes literally, is awash with invisible residue of events and words and thoughts of the five of us and our visitors. I would suppose the new owner should exorcise us.
Yet, the animals and ancestor in the backyard will remain known to me. Leave taking will require yet another ritual.
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My parents still own my
My parents still own my childhood home and I have not fully settled into my own life yet so I can not imagine how weird it must feel to leave a place you lived in for so long and hand it over to complete strangers. I think what is even weirder to imagine is that the house will become someone elses home, where they may live for decades, your own memories supplanted by theirs.
Mass exodus
Seems like everyone I know in JP is moving to Cambridge or Somerville. Not surprising, given that those cities are actually run properly, instead of being pathologically infected with incompetence, nepotism, political infighting, etc.
Kinda sad that the only thing this city does well is stamp every piece of city equipment with "MAYOR THOMAS M. MENINO." Isn't that illegal or at least ethically questionable? HE didn't buy that truck or library- WE did.
JP->HP
Actually, we'll leapfrog Adam by moving from the bottom of JP to mid-Hyde Park. It's more suburban in many ways, but still in that dreadful ;-> Boston.
I think the whole mayors
I think the whole mayors name on everything made sense in the pre internet days back when people may not be able to find that info out so easily. When you drove into a city you would see the sign, the mayors name, a rotary and a kiwanas sign saying when they meet, and maybe a welcome from the local masons and chamber of commerce. These days everything is so easy to find its a waste of money to go over the top like some mayors do, especially when they are not guranteed to be in office for more then 4 years, sometimes 2.
Seems like everyone I know
You mean there's still room for even more barneys in Cambridge and Somerville?
aren't barnies Harvard
aren't barnies Harvard students? I'm confused....