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Yesterday, I let go of the equipment I had used for years.
I wiped each piece down,
turned it on,
and watched it run one last time.
I took the money,
and they were loaded into the car and gone.
I thought that was the end of it.
Today, I received a photo from the man who bought them.
There they were,
neatly arranged in an unfamiliar space.
Until yesterday,
they had been there where I stood,
working alongside me.
And yet, strangely,
they didn’t look out of place.
As if they had always belonged there.
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They found a good home.
That was my first thought.
They had found someone who needed them.
They would be turned on again,
and they would make something again.
I was glad to see that.
But the longer I looked at the photo,
the more bittersweet it felt.
It wasn’t that I regretted letting them go.
I didn’t want them back.
I simply realized
that the time they had been with me
had truly come to an end.
In the photo,
the equipment was already waiting
to become part of someone else’s tomorrow.
I looked at the photo for a while,
then closed it.
They found a good home.
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Originally published at https://hallelujah.com on August 15, 2026.
