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In the decompression zone. \u00a0Visits from family, any family, are occasions for renewal of ties and creation of new memories. \u00a0Further sticky material for the mysterious field that defines often faraway people as belonging to each other. \u00a0Both Mark and the Denver Olsons were here this last week. \u00a0Now they’re both gone.<\/p>\n
Introverts like Kate and I have a doubled experience each time. \u00a0That is, we greet visitors and embrace them, eager to hear the latest news and have some new experiences together; but, too, we find our quiet and our routine disrupted. \u00a0Even our physical space. \u00a0That creates a tension, overlaid by the unusual such as cooking for 8, getting a driver’s license test, building bonfires, navigating to new destinations.<\/p>\n
That means leave taking has a doubled sense, too. \u00a0Sadness at good-bye, but also relief as the quiet returns and the day’s rhythms return to their norm. \u00a0Of course, feeling relief when loved ones go can generate guilt, but for introverts that guilt has to be parsed with the knife of one’s true nature. \u00a0Sadness is just that, sadness. \u00a0And relief, well, that just means we are who we are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Summer \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Solstice Moon In the decompression zone. \u00a0Visits from family, any family, are occasions … Continue reading Coming Up From the Deep<\/span>