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another change, in a season of change

i suppose i haven’t done a fall photo post yet. a lot of fall photographs are up on our flickr page, if you’d like to see some pretty leaves and grapevines.

i’m behind on taking pictures of Mahazda, for a couple reasons. one is that we’re both half moved in, and also waiting for the keva fireplace in the livingroom to be finished. i’ve got process pics of that, but want to be able to show the whole thing — it’ll be another week.

and by “we’re half moved in,” I mean that Jenny and Gawain are moved into the new house, but we’re still working on the kitchen, the office, and the common areas, so the space isn’t quite functioning as a community gathering space in the way we want it to. It will when the kitchen is fully moved over, but that’ll be a couple weeks while we finish installing cabinetry and appliances. And finish that fireplace in the livingroom, too. Alan and I are remaining in our yurts, Tristan in the Cottage, and Rev and Billy at Caer Aisling. While all of these are community spaces in different ways, Mahazda will be the common gathering place, for meetings, parties, events, etc. The Cottage front room will become a library later this winter (not that it’s very far from being one right now).

the other reason i’m behind on photography is that this is a season of change, in more ways than the house. Alan has been thinking for a year and more that he might need to move to the San Francisco Bay area for career reasons, and the time for this has finally come. So a couple of weeks ago, we packed up a rental car and drove out to Mountain View together, where we got Alan settled into a room at Tortuga Intentional Community. And a week later, he’s starting a job at Electric Cloud. Pow, just like that.

Alan is not leaving me, nor is he leaving Sunflower River; he’s very much still my partner, and a Steward of this community. He’s just a long-distance partner, and an off-site Steward, for as long as he needs to be in the Bay. This job is a very good career opportunity for him, and moves many objectives forward. So all in all, while it’s a really huge change for all of us, it’s one that we support his making, and will weather together.

And meanwhile, I’ll be flying back and forth to San Francisco more often. That just doesn’t suck. ;-)