Last Hurrah

While in Memphis at the end of August, I stopped by my house in Oakland. With a contract on it, expecting it to close soon, I wanted to take one last look. 

Though I didn't take many pictures, I thought it would be nice to snap a couple.

The master bedroom, though you can't see it all

For whatever reason, I looked in every room and every closet. As if I left something and it'd still be there after more than a year of people traipsing through (including my parents who've been maintaining the property). That's when I found this:

Barrette hanging on a ribbon in the master closet

This was the single remaining evidence of my day-to-day life for 10 years of living in this house. Yes, I took the barrette with me. :) 

Remembering the days I laid on my bed looking at the ceiling in my bedroom, thanking God for His provision...for His blessing...for His answer to my prayers for a home of my own...Remembering entertaining friends over the years and enjoying a few moments with family there...Remembering long nights of studying and writing papers while in my doctoral program...reading, studying and preparing curriculum to teach...cooking, cleaning and doing everyday things...God has been so good to me in so many ways...one of which was living in that little house and dreaming of the day I'd be married and begin a family of my own. 

It was good to remember...

and that was my last hurrah...