Yesterday, I stayed up all night again, packed things to take to FedEx (their Economy service just hands the packages off to the post office, and occasionally is actually a little bit cheaper) then headed right over to Goodwill and yep, the flute was still there. The North Face fleece wasn't so I can't win 'em all, but the flute was and for $33 it was mine.
It's in one of those hideous Bundy cases so I'll buy a modern case for it or I could keep it in the Yamaha case I have, put the Yamaha flute in the awful case, and sell the Yamaha telling the customer "sorry I don't have the original case" haha. I can "flip" the Yamaha for several times what the Bundy cost, and I love the look of the Bundy, with its nice thick silver plating, which backs up the story of "It's my old high school flute".
In fact I need to sell off a lot of flute stuff, to get money back out of it and also as part of simplifying my possessions. If I have to "grab and go" now, it will come down to throwing everything into many boxes and taking them over to the storage place, then staying in a hotel while I sort things, sell everything off I can, and arrange a plane ticket back to Hawaii or a place to rent here.
Yes, moving back to Hawaii is not guaranteed. Yes I miss the place. But I also know that I might well go fishing once, shell-picking once, go around and see all the places I lived growing up and as a young adult, and decide that's enough. Moving back to Hawaii to devote myself to the shakuhachi makes a lot of sense, but since I'm not going to bother with that any more, Hawaii has no advantages over anywhere else, and quite a few disadvantages. So I'd say it's 50/50 right now if I'm to go back there.
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