apt #6 changes

Apt #6 is changing this month.  I think our apartment felt the vibe of Apts # 8, 4 and 7 (on the other side), as those occupants are moving out/in because of marriages.  Likewise, Liz is moving out of Apt #6, but no one is moving in to take her place.  Her bedroom will befall in the void of her absence and eventually become a gym/blow up mattress guest bedroom.  The weeks of September have become a long list of “to do” lists for Liz.  First, it was the last Disney excursion, then the last Sunday at church, then the last HB wedding reception.  Last night was Brooke and Joe’s reception, which was full of tons of friends and ward family members.  And then, out of the corner of my eye I saw a long lost friend from my Hawaii days whom I hadn’t seen in over a decade.  It was good to talk with him and remember that his parents were the ones who drove me to the swap meet to buy luggage so I could leave the island and pursue the next steps in my life.  After the reception I reflected on how friends drift out and then back in to our lives to build and encourage us to drift ourselves.   Liz is off on her own adventure down-under and although Apt #6 won’t be the same as the glory days once were, she will be a friend who you plan to meet again, or run into at another friends’ wedding, because that’s just how life is.  Changes are coming and we will embrace them with tears and smiles here in Apt #6.