Parting With A Little Bit Of Rachel
Parting With A Little Bit Of Rachel
It’s a part of our lives we inevitably enter. Some of us with more ease than others, but none-the-less, a confrontation we must directly face head-on.

211 High Road Newburyport - Home For Sale
The death of a loved one, in this case a parent(s) and the sale of a childhood home, filled with the kaleidoscope of good and bad memories spanning years of unrepeatable life transitions. It’s the end of an era.
The “For Sale” sign is speaking loudly in the front yard today.
The 1835 Colonial Farm Home is statuesques in it’s High Road Newbury/Newburyport, Massachusetts stand. Character, charm, and capturing your heart, the walls welcome you to learn more and wonder less how loved these rooms were by Rachel and Fred, when they purchased the property in the 1960’s.
It’s time now, for a multitude of all very good reasons. Being single with two dogs for one, and I can’t possibly sleep in each of the four bedrooms at the same time, for another. The mere size demands a family needs to be here, and create their own memories inside and out.
It all seems part of the natural process at this point. I helped my parents subsequently leave this world, and now I am called to leave the home they treasured.
It is harder to hold on than to let go.
Working to empty 211 High Road is a miserable task and a pleasurable adventure. Gratitude for the history here is the only way to fuel my heart to continue the effort without deep grief of another loss. Was it Little Orphan Annie who said, “How lucky I am to have had someone I loved so much to cry about losing?”
Bitter Sweet never tasted so good.
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Only Rachel, from her “time capsule fashion collection” can be trusted to have kept such beautiful shoes in such loving condition after all these years. 








