Hello again. Let me begin tonight by saying thank you to the Rolling Stones for the masterpiece whose title became tonight’s theme. I’m not necessarily the biggest Stones fan but they have a few songs I would number among my favorites like “Satisfaction” and “Under My Thumb”. But “Gimme Shelter” would be my favorite by them. Great stuff!
Now where were we? Oh yeah, I was going to explain where in the hell I was going with this. Well, those of you who know me will understand immediately and those of you who don’t know me will will learn another fun fact about me tonight. We moved to the Fox River Valley area almost two years ago and when we did, we just decided to rent an apartment for the time being so we could just get settled before the weather started to get bad. Well now our lease is coming to an end and we really have to have more room, so we’re moving. This might seem like any big deal to some of you, but this will be move number eight ( I think ) in thirteen years together with my wife.
I really thought we were done moving when we bought our house in Manitowoc but then, downsizing by a former turned me into a landlord and me and my family into gypsies. So now we begin again to search for more permanent shelter, a search that has us exploring every possibility and checking map quest constantly to find out where that town is located in relation to where I work so I”m not driving thirty minutes one way to go to work.
We love living here and this has very quickly become home to us, but we are at a bit of a disadvantage when it comes to where to live. We’ve begun to rely on friends and coworkers for opinions on topics ranging from schools to neighborhoods to shopping to doctors to, well you get the idea. While we’ve been thankful for all of the help, where we end up will come down to what it always comes down to. A feeling. That feeling you get when you look around and think about what it would be like to entertain there, to have Thanksgiving dinner there, your children’s birthday parties, what it would be like to just sit out back and watch the kids play while doing nothing at all. That feeling. That’s what it will come down to.
So we’ll take our time looking around and remain confident that we’ll know it when we see it, because while we’re looking for shelter, what we really are looking for is home.
That’s all for now, but I”ll talk to you tomorrow when I’ll be playing in quicksand, again.
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