Time Split Into Chapters
- rachael0824
- Jul 18
- 3 min read
This is a continuation of The Girl In The Orange Grove series on how I ended up in Italy at an abandoned house. My past, my story, is all part of this adventure.
I feel like time is split into chapters, where there is a clear distinction on the things that shape each of us. After my dogs died and Pappy was in the nursing home, that orange grove no longer felt like home. There was a clear beginning of that chapter in my heart and when it ended. But I was still there.
My dad told me once that home isn’t a place, it’s the ones who are there. So what do you do when the memories of the ones that were there make you want to leave? Make you want to run away and escape the endless reminders it will never be the same?
I now had a job of making sure everyone was ok in the family. That had been Pappy’s job, and now I took it on. I mowed acres and acres of orange grove, I made sure everyone in the family knew I would take care of them, yet it wasn’t enough. I missed my dogs especially, and I didn’t see myself being able to call anywhere else home. I felt so comfortable yet so out of place.
When Nate went to that shelter and brought home the saddest dog there…Ernie, who we later named Peanut Butter Brickle, I had no idea how much a dog could change my life.
No, I’m not being over dramatic. A dog, that dog, changed my life, my world, and me. Later, when we adopted Levi who we later named Digby Pancake, I found out dogs could be real challenges and windows into the depths of our souls. They clearly had a plan in life, and I was about to be along for the ride. Literally.
-To be continued
-Rachael
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I would love to show as we apply for our visas at the end of this month that we have the monthly support we need to get this project done and continuing from the ground up.
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