love / loss

Today we're giving bookshelves to our friends.  Our friends are renting a truck to pick them up.  We already moved Ming's spiffy folding bookshelves to Las Vegas.  These three tall wooden bookshelves will not make the move with us.

I thought nothing was holding me to Sacramento, but I see now that a ton is.  Yesterday we saw my church friend V.  She gave me a beautiful shawl from India.  She's 76, she told us, and will move soon too.  She can't do anymore the things she's been doing. 

My beautiful V--was this the last time I'd ever see her?  So much love, so much loss.