{"id":64023,"date":"2026-08-29T10:19:05","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T16:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=64023"},"modified":"2026-08-29T10:25:48","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T16:25:48","slug":"leaving-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=64023","title":{"rendered":"Leaving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And so they leave. Tara and Ajran. Tom, yesterday. This morning BJ. Monday morning, Mary. I&#8217;ve enjoyed having people in the house. Not my usual situation. Since Kate died, I&#8217;ve lived alone. Content with my own company, and regular get togethers with friends.<\/p>\n<p>Though I&#8217;ll be alone for two weeks, when I move to Elk Run, there will be many people around. I intend to guard my solitude, but I also want to meet new people, socialize.<\/p>\n<p>Finding that balance, making exercise regular, walking\/caring for Shadow-all critical early on.<\/p>\n<p>After my nap, I&#8217;m going upstairs to choose which books I want to take from those in the living room. Many, I imagine.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And so they leave. Tara and Ajran. Tom, yesterday. This morning BJ. Monday morning, Mary. I&#8217;ve enjoyed having people in the house. Not my usual situation. Since Kate died, I&#8217;ve lived alone. Content with my own company, and regular get togethers with friends. Though I&#8217;ll be alone for two weeks, when I move to Elk &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=64023\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Leaving<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4420,4317],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assisted-living","category-shadow-mountain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64023"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64025,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64023\/revisions\/64025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}