Aha’s and discoveries along the transition journey
I saw this question in an essay on friendship: “If you disappeared from their life for a month, would they miss you specifically? Not just what you do for them, but you.” And it made me think about things both ways - who am I missing, specifically, and have I been missed, specifically. I’ve drifted … Continue reading Have I Been Missed?
My mind-space is mostly on the house build. So close and yet, this week it was all about the delays -hurricanes, hissy fits, hitches, and holidays. What the H! Hurricanes - While we were lucky to not get a direct hit from the latest gulf hurricane, it brought days of heavy rain. The yard turned … Continue reading What the H—?
One of the tools I started using early in my retirement was morning journaling. It was a tool I learned about in The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron While mine is not quite the 3-5 pages of handwritten stream of consciousness she recommends, it is something that I have continued almost every day in my … Continue reading Journal Writings
While I’ve been writing in the blog recently about my intention to “start as I mean to go on” by creating the small habits and being intentional of where I put my energy so I am living the life I want to live, right now there is just a focus on, “Get the house done!” … Continue reading House Recovery Update
I’ve been reading again on friendship at this stage of life. My plan upon moving back into our home is to “start as I mean to go on,” creating the small habits and putting my energy in places so I am living the life I want to live. Part of this means I am thinking … Continue reading A Reflection on Friendship – Just Be You
But first, a house recovery moment. My house recovery “mental load list” started with 40 items. Then I added 18 more items over the next few months. Only 20 things have been check-marked done. I know I can celebrate that, but there is still so much to manage through. Some of the mental load items … Continue reading September Randomness
I recently read an article about habits to help you live a more joyful life (link here for full article), and “it’s the little habitual things” was a key aspect of that article. To counter some of the negative triggers I was dealing with the past couple of weeks, this article really helped me notice … Continue reading Habits for Joy
I am a bit addicted to Facebook (even though I am told it’s for old-fogies now). But I follow a number of inspirational sites and often they provide me with a wonderful phrase for the day, or a question that stirs my contemplation. One that came up recently was, “Do you assume the best or the … Continue reading Do You Assume the Best or the Worst?
The other day an old friend commented to me, “Quite the journey you have been on since starting retirement. This was not supposed to happen (in reference to the hurricane).” And it made me think, what was I expecting retirement to be like when I began the journey? And were my expectations societal? Personal? Realistic? … Continue reading Retirement Expectations
As I contemplated a blog topic for today, I noted that the only phrase underlined in my morning journal entries this week was, “Ordinary acts anchor us in the present.” Perhaps that is the answer to my underlying question, “I am doing the work, so why doesn’t it feel like I’m healing (emotionally)?” I recognize … Continue reading The Ordinary
