Milestones

I haven't blogged for so long that I am actually angry with myself! I did, however, find 4 draft posts from 2010 that I never published.  As I read them, I think I'm glad I didn't. 

I love to write and I haven't taken the time to do what I love to do .  It's different now! I am not sitting at my desk posting away on my computer, but laying in my bed  posting away on my iPad. So many changes have happened since my last post.  I lost my job...but was able to take retirement, so, not a pity party or a total loss.  The severance package was good, the retirement is OK,  and the time off has been heavenly.  I am, however not one that can sit about doing nothing. I kept my second job and I opened a business of my own. We"ll see how that goes.  I have an interview on the 4th of March to pick up a contract for the new business.  I'm looking forward to having something to stimulate the brain cells again. However, as I think about what I want to be when I grow up, I wonder if I am playing it safe doing what I know how to do while hesitating to jump into something I am not so experienced in performing, but love to do. Safe isn't always fun. How old is too old to do the things you love to do? Never? I know that's the advise I would give. I think I need to follow my own advice, I think. So what is it I love to do? Write, yes, but what?  A book? Maybe.... A column?  That's what I would like, but t it keeps getting pointed out to me that no one reads magazines or books or newpapers anymore.  I don't know, maybe I can stick with the blog to get my need to write fix.  Photography? Yes, I even have a lead for a volunteer spot to do amateur photography. Can't wait to follow up on that. Travel? Definitely!  I have some big stuff coming soon which I will share here. I do have to make some money. That's the problem with doing things you love; often they bring little to no income.  Not always, but sometimes. Songwriting? Yes, done  alot of that of that, mostly when I was a lot younger, even have a copyright on a piece. There is always another song inside somewhere.  I also love teaching kids with music....I've had this idea of teaching some American history through folk tunes that are being lost....have to pull out the guitar and toughen up my fingers again. Know what a tarrier is?  How about the history of the Erie Canal?  Revolutionary war?  All have some folk tunes to go with them.  There is fun stuff too.  "Oh Far and Far to Zanzibar" is a great song.  Some say that kids are too sophistcated for that anymore...I say kids like what kids like...My "professional" background is nursing which, although physically difficult at times, I love, and clinical research, which I find fascinating and challenging, albeit a bit dry at times.  My ADD makes my mind race through so many things that I have a difficult time getting the brain train to stop at any one station. I jump through stops saying "Yes! I like that, and that, and that.... " Focus has always been an issue for me. If I get hung up on something, my train derails and it is one heck of an effort to get it back on track again.  I  think that's what makes me, at the same time, interesting, or scary...take your pick...