Some Thoughts on This Anniversary

NB This post starts in the present, but ends up transitioning to an older post, from 18 months ago. So in reality, this covers from 2009 to the present... So for continuity you may want to read the previous post first.

But what has happened in the past 18 months? Well, I finally got onto Ontario Disability Pension, which for one year was a blessing, which I shared with my family, for medical care for 3 cats. More importantly, I kept walking, and from 7 k walks have progressed through 10 k, to 14-15 k on a regular basis, and with the occasional half marathon, of 21 k ;-)

Would like to walk a "REAL" half marathon sometime, and I am aiming for the London UK Marathon ;) optimistic 90% of the time, but realistic too, that it is going be a while to get back to where life is easy; my life has changed, in most ways for the better; though it may be hard to believe that

It is interesting in how life can change in 24 hours. Leaves one breathless, and wondering what is next. Whether it is a good change or ill. It happened the day I busted my knee. Now, this May 24^th weekend, my life’s perspective changed again. I am like a sailboat on a new tack. Heading for a new sighting.

Smriti (Hindi – Memories, was my Dr’s middle name)

  A Sustainable Life, is living debt free, feature rich, while having the time to smell the roses! Like the painting I do, I am a work in progress! In Transition and Growing in Old / New Directions! Re-discovering what is important to me. And this weekend had a revelation from all the time I had spent down sizing. in the past 2 years (and more recently severely continuing that trend, to the point one would think all I wanted was a knap sack and walking stick in life ;D) but I am down to a bit more than a pick up truck of stuff, and in 4 months will have no place to put it and I am not worried, because the revelation: It doesn’t matter!!!

I have sufficient health and income to live without worrying where I am, and I am not tied to a mortgage or anyone. There was a John Denver song along those lines. Sweet Surrender –

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZ2VkWBf0v8

Back in October 19 to March of this year, I came to help my eldest daughter, as she recouped from major surgery. But at the basement rooms, I had been down sized to 1 room, when my son, needed a place to stay, so we had crammed my stuff into one room, until I could get around to sorting it out. But realizing after being away for 5 months, that going back to a one room dungeon was not looking like the best of options, I asked about staying on for a bit with my daughter and her family. I have been here since, but with the realization that it was only temporary. At most a year or so.  Now it is looking like even less than a month. At least until I can get myself together and the weather improves for camping.