Chance = Change

Astonishing! I began sorting, throwing out, selling,throwing more out, sorting and packing packing packing well over a month ago, and the more I threw out, sold, sorted out and threw out again, the more stuff there seemed to be! It is an amazing phenomenon: it's like the stuff mates and multiplies and mates and multiplies some more the moment our backs are turned!! No one on the planet has more STUFF than we do! The 1st Act of the comedy today began when we picked up the 24 foot truck and Peter had to drive it from the rental place to Kiser Furniture to pick up all our new furniture (yes we bought more stuff) and he realized what it took to turn a corner with a truck that large...poor guy...it took him hours to recover, and he was so scared he would run down a human being or two, and crush at least one small child on his journey...of course, as is always the way with Yonka, it all went perfectly smoothly and he parked the damned thing like a champ, all neatly backed up to our door later for loading the first of about 3ooo(surely!) boxes we have to load....in other words, Peter always does well, he just gets spooked by the difficulty and strangeness of the experience. And I can hardly blame him...I mean 24 feet worth of truck!!!! Larger than I could ever manage and larger than either of imagined . SO: the bottom line on that part of the drama (of course, like all good theatre, this adventure is a comic drama, or vice versa) the bottom line is that Peter's folks (dearest Pat and Charles) will drive over tomorrow from Michigan (having just left) and help us drive home to NYC. Charles has had real experience driving large trucks and so his company and wisdom wil put Peter at ease, and it will be swell for Peter to have a companion all those hours. And I will have the joy of sharing dearest Pat's company for the long stretch in the Chevy Caprice...we shall be learning Hebrew along the way!!! Because Pat is going to Tel Aviv for Montessori in February...and so the truck terror is calmer for the nonce...the real terror now is: WILL WE GET EVERYTHING IN THE TRUCK???I fear we will not even come close!