Tuesday, June 05, 2007

Wide, but not so deep

These days, I'm looking around - just shopping -- as I think about where to go from here. We're between trips, and I'm catching on that I have developed a pattern. When I have something planned in my future, I tend to use the between-time to skim the surface of time instead of digging down into life and getting some real experience. Wide, but not deep.

Where do I go from here? Why does it matter? Where is here that I need to know where to go next?

Here is a major change in lifestyle from working to non-working. I have been officially re-retired since mid February, and now it is moving toward the middle of June. By traveling locally and internationally, I have avoided the proverbial next-step thinking until now. But it's time. This next trip is our last planned trip of the year!

Here are some potential next-step projects:

  • Catch up on reading.

  • Finish the bedspread quilt.

  • Read the blogs of others and think about how I would respond.

  • Concentrate on more Bible study.

  • Enlarge my social network.

  • Take a course.

  • Do volunteer work.

  • Continue to clean out accumulations of years.

  • Sew for Erica.

  • Do some art sewing.

  • Knit.

  • Embroidery.