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02/28/2004: "moving without going anywhere"

music: maksim's lovely rendition of love and liberte (G Kings)
mood: exhausted yet relieved and somewhat satisfied

during the past few days I made some drastic moves which threw me into a vortex of boxes,packers and movers,and landed me in a new apt only a few feet away from where I had been living for the past 6 years...But not before filling dozens of boxes,bubblewrapping,crating,and mummififying my possessions into km of tape,as if they were going to travel through the ether for all eternity...I ended up less than thity yards away from where I started,and yet it's another world:as I type this note at midnight,I can see the montreal skyline behind the computer screen,and an almost full moon.
yesterday three packers came to help:one sweet bald guy,one smoky chinless chinless hobbit,and one toothless beersoaked young man:the 3 wise men from Meldrum.
this was the preamble to the grand finale:the MOVE,from 9 am till 6 pm today:this time they were 4:david,the leader an expowerlifter,who used to leg press 1400 lbs and bench 350lbs,grigory a moldovan
ex israeli ex russian army cool customer,richard a rock/folk/blues artist who likes milk with his burger,amd holly the strong woman of the team who did most of the heavy lifting all day,and who loves
charlie daniels ,an old buddy of mine.well they were amazing and too bad ifthis ends up sounding like a commercial for meldrum movers!
On top of that I had my old flame Annette who came from frisco,and even my sons who rushed to the rescue:Maurice came and milled about doing a bit of this and that,and dave reconnected the radios tvs,etc.My revered expert on anything internet Nicholas came and reassembled my computers,

the omniscient Nicholas for whom wires are pleasantries,and screens flat entities.finally maksim sent me a beautiful piece of guitar he freshly expressed out of his guitar,leaving me proud an d jealous at the same time;his sensitivity and elegance will take him and his music somewhere good for sure.So here I am,seeing the world from a new perspective,although I hardly moved as a result of a very well planned move.I am not sure I know what it all means,and I will work extra hard to try and give it some kind of sense.but now it's midnight,time to sample the night....a defining moment......