M. Nack’s Blog

Moving from West Loop to Mayfair has shifted our energy. It’s been a “returning” feeling. Living in West Loop rattled our nerves and we walked through our days feeling “frayed”. Was it too much concrete - too few trees? Was it the constant racket of the el, heliocopters delivering people to the medical centers 1/2 mile south of us, the boomboxes of our neighbors? Or the distinctly different culture we found ourselves immersed in? It was weird how leaving the North Side for West Loop felt as if we had moved to a different city - or even a different country! Whereas moving to Mayfair was such an easy - almost seamless! - transition. We were settled in record time; something like 10 days. Well, OK, maybe not completely settled. In 10 days we had the rocks in place. And maybe even the pebbles. We still have the sand and water to situate. (Though it’s entirely possible that may never happen.) The thing is Mayfair isn’t really our ‘hood. Ravenswood/Lincoln Square is. We lived there for 30 years! As I said about matching energies and ‘hoods - maybe our energy is a Mayfair energy now, not a Lincoln Square energy. Lincoln Square is somewhere between Mayfair and West Loop. Maybe this sojourn to Mayfair is just meant to be a temporary reprieve to allow our frayed nerves a chance to mend. Yet I have this crazy notion that someday I would love to own a condo overlooking Millenium Park (at prices in excess of $600/sf!). Because the one thing I really loved about living in West Loop is being 15 minutes from anything downtown. But how the heck does living downtown fit into the energetic scheme of things? I guess it will happen when we get a Millenium Park energy.
 
“All Things With Exuberance!”

mary!