The most joyful thing is happening in Seattle. It is SUNNY! Several days in a row of glorious, inspiring, motivational sunshine! The most stunning kind of day when I wake up to a warm orange glow on the last of the fall leaves, a brilliant azure sky and a crisp bite of winter chill in the air. My lettuce that attempted to power through the fall has now turned brown and lifeless. As these transitions are happening outside my front door, I feel them happening inside as well.
I have spent plenty of my life working at a comfortable job that is uninspiring, frustrating and not encouraging me to live to my potential. After many discussions with friends and family, I find this feeling to be quite common. I am at a strange age when I am closer to 50 than I am to 20, my body reinforces this fact with it’s aches, many of my friends have kids and lead a different lifestyle than me and it’s getting more difficult to think of going back to school or starting a new career as I am losing time. What is the ideal life I’m meant to be leading? I fear I will figure it all out when I am 80, only to look back and say, “Damn. That’s what the universe was trying to tell me.”
The first step towards clearing my path for self actualization/ transformation/ personal gratification has been to quit my job. Everyone has asked me, “What are you going to do now?” I think my best answer has been find fulfillment. The response to that is, “Let me know how that goes.” So, here I am, sitting in the November sun, writing this, full of gratitude.
Sunny hike through lava fields.
Snowdrops
Another route to “The Good Life”
Luscious Light 