And Now…
Isn’t is amazing how the days, months, even years, move by us? Some things are the same, others gloriously different, and still, some in change. I am struck by the blink of an eye life is.
Are we still waiting? Waiting for the things to happen? More time, more money, when it gets warm, next year? Or do we look back and say, I can’t believe another year has cycled past and I didn’t follow my hopes, dreams, goals, my secret heartbeat.
Are we procrastinating or, as some suggest, we are afraid of change, we know where we are and that feels safe? Mayhap, we are truly just searching for how to make changes, real changes that make us happy. Let’s start there.
Let’s start there, together. Here we are in our empty nests, our 3rd stage life, our new places and all we really want is to be happy. Isn’t that true? Happiness, contentment, bliss. That feeling of a small smile in our souls that makes it to our lips and shines out at our lives.
No need to gather anything to begin. Just bring your soul smile.
Kara
Life’s Abundance…
A smile is on my lips as I write this today. Ten years has flown by from the that dark winter I describe below. Ten years of living in the sun, the one in the heart and the one that marks the movement of time.
So much has changed, yet not. Oh, well, like the regular changes – a new car or two, a new deck on the house, new job (or 2!), and a few new wrinkles of course. The girls, both married, both happy, still close. Some health scares, some triumphs, some losses, some tears and so much laughter! All of the past has shaped us and moved us along.
Here we are now. Building our life.
Come along. Join us in the Sun of our life. Bring your sun along, it’s time, it’s Now for Us!
Trending a New Lifestyle
So, now your life is yours again, that change we discussed- remember? You and Yours have celebrated the double decade anniversary, or by chance you are remarried, perhaps the children have grown and, finally, gone. Now You and Yours have a new life to create. Do you wonder that what means? How to do it? What even to do? You think- I have been THIS for the last 20 years, what do I know of being THAT? What is THAT anyway? My other is stuck in THIS. I don’t have money to be THAT or to have THAT life- what ever it is. All the better.
Let us create that lifestyle we crave, even if we do not know what it is. All we need is the desire to have This – an abundant life, full of love, experiences, beautiful things, knowledge, enough money and time – all leading to joy, connections, contentment, happiness and peace… exactly what we want!
Let’s explore our new life and create it together!
A Life Changed… ( original post)
Sometimes our life starts over- by design or by default. And then, start over we must. I never thought my life would start again. I am 50, with a husband of 25 years, 2 amazing girls, family, friends, my passion-I dance, direct, perform, at a studio with the owner, my best friend, a good career- really- I had it all. Two months after my 51st birthday, I am a widow, two months later, the death of my decade long best friend, the loss of my dance and I am alone. My oldest girl off at college, my youngest trying to hold her life together her junior year in high school. So much loss, so much sadness, so dark in our hearts. A long, cold winter when I know the sun never shined.
My sister, the one at the warm sunny southern beach, calling every few days. ” You must come down. Get sunshine, have cocktails on the beach. Find some bliss.” Calling again, same message. I do not want to go. I hate to fly.Finally I agree. I will come. Stay a week. Lay on the beach, read, relax.
Now I am there. Sitting on Sister’s deck, Gin and Tonic clinking in my hand- hot, humid, I am going to sweat out the sadness. I feel better already. Who doesn’t with Gin in their hand? The phone rings and Sister works to solve the problem on the phone. Her friend stops by for a drink, a Scottish Lord-no-really!The car door slams and he enters the deck, We introduce ourselves, Sister is still on the phone.
It changed then. Not sure I knew that at that moment. When I look back, I know. Chatting with the Scottish Lord was easy, light, amusing. The next night, a sultry night of wine, laughter, crowds of people and him. By week end, I know I need to know more about him, about us. I leave, yet return in a week’s time to spend 2 weeks in the sun- the sun in the sky and the one in his heart. I knew, he knew. Let’s join together- yes, without hesitation. How does that happen? We came together is a sunny wedding with my girls giving us the blessing to go forward. We are now a new family and are finding our new way. Sometimes the way is up, sometimes the way is down, but it is always the way. It is warm in all our hearts.
kara
Now for Us 