Moving On

It's been a busy week, mentally.  Physically,the cat and I have been hanging out together on the sofa and watching Law and Order.  But mentally I have been in overdrive.  I have done the psychological  equivalent of decluttering, rearranging furniture and painting.  I think I still need to drag some stuff to the emotional curb and maybe hang some drapes.

Seriously, I still don't have a long range plan but I am good for the short run.  My daughter, Chelsea, is helping me rework and update the cookbook I wrote 20 years ago and we hope to market it as before.  I have a research project I am very interested in and it could turn into a writing project--not ready to share all of those details yet.  This poor old house has lots of work we can do, the last two years it has been neglected in favor of work.  I want to schedule a trip to Atlanta before Chelsea starts back to college and we have a new kitten.

I also am trying to digitize all our family pictures and identify folks in them. And that dovetails into my ongoing genealogy research  (36 years and counting).

So, I am looking forward, moving on.

There be Dragons!

 

There be dragons!

Old map-makers used to mark the edges of ‘known territory’ with those words – “Beyond here – there be dragons”. 

Having lived most of my life following a map of sorts, I find myself now veering off into unknown lands of retirement.  I am moving slowly and with purpose because like most folks, I fear the unknown—the dragons that lurk in the uncharted places.

I am still wondering what I want to be when I grow up.  Up till now I always had a plan, even if it didn’t make sense to others, I knew what I needed to do and had a plan on how to get it done.  Now that I have “arrived” at retirement I am looking off into the horizon knowing I need to continue my journey but unsure which way to go.  No matter which way, I fear that there be dragons.   So I have to figure out how to be a dragon slayer instead of dragon chow.  For now, I am building my strength and my arsenal and studying the map.  Stay tuned for more dragon adventures.