Marica’s Meanderings

Here are those rubber gloves again. Not the same ones though. We have managed to work our way through quite a few pairs during this week. We are on the final burst of cleaning in the old house. We are almost there and it feels great. This is my daughter Zofia vacuuming dust from the [...]

These are Lynsey’s shoes that he wears in the garden. They are sitting there on the step by the conservatory door. This seems so normal. I can see him working in the garden and as he has come inside for a break, or to get something, he has slipped off his shoes and left them [...]

This rose is important to me and today we transplanted it into our new garden. I couldn’t leave this rose bush behind – it had to come with us. I call this the “Honey I’m home rose”. I have no idea what its real name is and it doesn’t matter to me. This rose bush [...]

Today the moving company turned up to move the big stuff like our queen size bed. Tonight, Lynsey and I will be spending our first night in the new house and we are both looking forward to this. We moved the kids in on Monday so they have already spent two nights in the new [...]

I was checking up on the status of the various rooms on the downstairs level of the house as we continued to empty it of all our furniture and other possessions. I looked at these rubber gloves lying there on the ground. There was nothing in the room except for these gloves. They were a [...]

Our lives are completely consumed by the process of moving as we set about the mammoth task of leaving what was our old home and begin creating our new one. I look at the two buildings involved and realise that neither is our home at the moment. They are structures that are providing us with [...]

The carpet cleaner came to the new house this morning and did his job amazingly efficiently. When you watch someone doing something they are proficient at they make it look so easy. You go away thinking “I could have done that” and then when you do try to do it you realise it is not [...]

I had a plan and it has already changed. I had arranged for the carpet cleaners to come this morning while the house was still empty. They phoned me last night to say they couldn’t make it because of staff illness. They promised they would get someone to us tomorrow instead! So we invoked the [...]

Photography surely is the most temporal of the arts. Even music and dancing permit rehearsal and multiple performances, but a photograph is limited to a single moment. The photographer can mull and ponder at length, but the camera imposes finally the constraint of one blink. The picture that results is the realization of a unique [...]

Some days seem harder than others. I wonder what keeps me going when part of me says it wants to give up and not do any of this anymore. I keep living with the belief that there is something more, something better, but what is it? I have to ask myself what I am searching [...]