The house is bare.

Stark walls and floors,

where once paintings and

Asian carpets challenged the eye.

Now, only tapestries of memories,

silent moments hang in corners.

 

To stay, in only one spot,

is too difficult for us.

The challenge of change

and different ideas, a catalyst

in our senior years.

We are ready.

 

We will be back,

for there is so much

still to experience

on this idyllic coast.

This painting that we live in.

David Garlick, Victoria, August,1996