My wife and I are making preparations for a vacation trip.
The word vacation suggests that you have left something vacant.
We will vacate our work responsibilities. We will leave our house vacant. Of course the garden will fill up with weeds in our absence. The lawn will be overgrown when we return. This blog and my Facebook page will have empty spots for as long as I am gone. The cat will be in the kennel and will not understand why she has been left with strangers. The mailbox and my various email boxes will not be vacant; they will continue to fill up until I return.
Why do we vacate the premises and go off on holiday (as the British call it)? I suppose it is because our minds and bodies need to have some down time. We need to defragment our hard drives (our minds). Sometimes vacations do that for us. Other times they don't. We are hoping that this will be a vacation that will be effectual in healing and soothing our bodies and souls.
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