I haven't written a word in my blog since my last posting in April. I can hardly believe it's almost time to put the clocks back again. I was all excited about blogging and had imagined posting something each and every month. But life has happened again and here I am, over six months later, with the leaves gone from the trees and the first signs of snow already staying on the ground.
But it hasn't been an uneventful half year. Quite the opposite! I spent two and a half months working on an exciting government event last Spring, hosted a student from Japan in August, renovated my house in September and sold it this month. Now, I am about to move to a new town, new work and new ... well ... everything!This is one of those times where one has the chance to get rid of the old to make room for the new. In one way, I mean that literally, as I sell and give away things I'll never need again ... like a riding lawnmower and a chainsaw ... as I move from the country back to the 'burbs'. The rest is stuff that has just collected. It's not possible that I've collected all this junk, so it must have just collected here by itself.
Less literally, I'm trading the life I've had here for five years with a new life in a new place. On the one hand, I'm excited about the move and I know it will be a really good one for me in terms of where I want to be in my life. But it's bittersweet too as I'll be giving up a much loved country lifestyle to move back to the city. I'll miss having no neighbours within earshot, a ten acre back yard, fresh cold well water and a fire burning in the wood stove.
I'm looking forward to this new life. I have great plans for my business and for enjoying some of the things I've missed by living so far from the 'big' city. But they say that all change requires a degree of discomfort, pain or loss. I'm finding this to be very true. This is a time of great change for me so I figure what they must be talking about is ... PACKING !No pain, no gain ... right? Wish me luck!
