Article August 9, 1993 Issue

You can take it with you!

The good in our lives is spiritual. Changes in our home, our job, or our family can't diminish it.

Kim Shippey

They say you can't take it with you. But it all depends on what you want to take, and what you're thinking as you try to take it!

My wife and I proved this a few years ago when I received a job offer that would mean leaving our lovely home and garden in subtropical Africa for an apartment in a large American city.

"You must be mad!" protested our closest friends. "How could you leave an acre of garden and fourteen hours of sunshine a day for the vagaries of New England weather?" And by the time they'd finished challenging us, we were beginning to wonder ourselves.

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