[Oxford63] Holiday Greetings

[oxford63 at mailman.cyber-community.com]

Holiday greetings to you all.

 

It’s now over a year since our house burned in the October, 2017 northern California wildfires.  I recall writing to you all then about our situation and how I was feeling at the time – devastated and overwhelmed.  I now realize how unbalanced and fragile I was. Things for my husband and me have much improved since then.

 

We are quite settled in our new house.  It is now furnished very comfortably, although without many decorative touches. Everything is new.  New is lovely and unworn.  On the other hand, new has no roots or memories attached.  So new has some down sides, but as time goes on new will grow its own roots and make its own memories.  All in all, we are in extremely good shape and extremely fortunate. I shudder, however, each time there is another destructive wildfire in our state.

 

We received a good injection of “normal” when we returned to Massachusetts for a few weeks this summer and then again in the fall.  My husband and I now own a summer home near Plymouth that my grandfather built in 1920. In the last few years I had questioned why I kept the place because it is so far from where we live and we use it for only part of the summer.  Returning there this July, however, nourished my soul.  In the comfort of familiarity I was able to reconnect with myself.  I will be keeping the house.

 

In October we attended the wedding of my son-in-law’s sister.  I’ve included 2 photos from the wedding.  One shows off my youngest grandchild, Lina, dressed for the Indian wedding; the other is of George and me in our (new) party clothes.  

 

Our 2 children and 5 grandchildren (aged 11 to 3-3/4) are doing well.  We will be seeing them all over Christmas.  What could be better?  

 
Wishing all of you the best for the holidays and the New Year.
Love,Nancy







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