Plans for moving on depend on timing: Don’t go too soon, or wait too long. If you’ve picked up and changed locations by yourself, you know the drill. Sometimes it works out better than expected. Then there’s this:
MOVING ON WHEN YOU’RE THE LAST TO KNOW
March 30, 2022 by David Gillaspie
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SOCIAL DISTANCE: AN EXERCISE IN LISTENING
March 16, 2020 by David Gillaspie

Social distance is different in an apartment house. Shared walls and floors work the same, but the sound travels. Keeping out of circulation is the rule of the day, but the sound in apartments is constant. Sometimes I miss my old apartment, but then remember how it was.
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