Its been almost eight months since I last posted here.Our family's life has been turned up-side-down in that time. My husband was involved in a car accident in August which resulted in a spinal cord injury that has left him in a wheelchair. The next few months were hard: intensive care, rehab and the painful choice to leave our farm.
The life we were living was not one my husband could be involved in to the level we both wanted. We have moved back into the city. We feel we can live a life here that is closer to the values that led us to the farm in the first place. We are renting (and hoping to soon buy) a beautiful, open, wheelchair friendly condo that is right downtown. It is within walking distance to our favorite farmers market, a large park and a lot of like minded people and programs. We have opted for a condo over a house right now because we feel that the added bonus of being able to garden would be out-wade by the amount of time a house requires that could be spent with family and friends. There are quiet a few community gardens very close and I hope to get involved with one next year when i'm feeling more settled.
Looking over the past eight months its still very hard to think of what we have lost. I had seen Liam growing up at the farm with a brother or sister and the many projects and things we would do with our life. Since our move I have found that we are still going to be able to find our farm, just not in the way I had thought. It is going to take time and healing but we will learn to find the things we love in a new setting and we are lucky to be somewhere with so many like minded people (like Little City Farm, which is just around the corner from us now) to share with.
Cheers
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