What an unexpected view I am having from my 74-year-old perspective. I am looking backward and forward at the same time. It’s like driving with one eye on the road and one eye in the rear view mirror. I am organizing my blogs with the idea of publishing some of them. Time-wise they cover the last seven years of my life, but content-wise they represent a lifetime. It’s a lifetime of stories, people, adventures, cats. There is a lot squeezed into those blogs. So many changes. When I was younger I thought that at this point in my life I would be contemplating all of my accomplishments and be either feeling on top of the world or full of regrets. I don’t feel either of those things. Not that I don’t have delusions of gradure picturing myself on a whirlwind book tour, but at least I know they are delusions. I look back on a life in which I have learned to accept and deal with things I had no clue about in my youth. Struggles and disappointments, awe and joy, are all mixed together in a rich soup of feelings that have nothing to do with my “accomplishments.” It’s taken me a while to get to this point, and my journey isn’t over, but oh what a trip it’s been.
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