Being one of the World's best Procrastinators has been a career of mine. I'm not particularly proud of that statement - but I call it like it is! I especially shine, when it comes to starting something I really think I'd like to do. You know how it goes....great idea... I'll begin tomorrow! Then you get busy with something else - often for someone else - and somehow tomorrow just never seems to arrive with you free to get at that thing that you really want to do.
Well, I'm here to tell you to "Hang in there long enough and tomorrow does come!" Take it from me. It happened today and here I am. Sitting in a cold house in Kathmandu, Nepal, (more about the location, later) wondering if I can type on my laptop with gloves on my cold fingers. Not sure how far I'll get but I have made a start. You know the old saying that "every journey begins with the first step". I've taken it!!
Some months ago, I received one of those circular internet things by email from a friend. You know the kind. The ones where you say, " I don't have time for this" and your finger heads for the Delete key. Well every once in awhile there arrives a gem that you just can't get out of your mind when you have taken the challenge to read it. The "gem" for me was this one from an anonymous but wise author.......
Well, I'm here to tell you to "Hang in there long enough and tomorrow does come!" Take it from me. It happened today and here I am. Sitting in a cold house in Kathmandu, Nepal, (more about the location, later) wondering if I can type on my laptop with gloves on my cold fingers. Not sure how far I'll get but I have made a start. You know the old saying that "every journey begins with the first step". I've taken it!!
Some months ago, I received one of those circular internet things by email from a friend. You know the kind. The ones where you say, " I don't have time for this" and your finger heads for the Delete key. Well every once in awhile there arrives a gem that you just can't get out of your mind when you have taken the challenge to read it. The "gem" for me was this one from an anonymous but wise author.......
Life
Isn’t about surviving the storm;
But….
How you dance in the rain!
Eureka! Suddenly, I realized that's part of what I've been doing most of my life (all 79 years of it) and it's been a great adventure - a process that continues to teach me "how to dance in the rain". It hasn't been a solitary experience. On the contrary, my life has been touched by many others. Some of the experiences have been more challenging than others but there has been a liberal sprinkling of sheer joy that have added flavor to the process and a zest for life, growing, progressing, enduring, learning and, yes, thankfully SURVIVING
A number of people, over the past 20 years or so, have said to me, "You should write a book." I think that's where the biggest dose of procrastination came from! I don't have a clue where to start on a book and who would want to read it anyway? Then I suddenly realized, "A blog....here's my answer. I can write and don't even have to publish it if I don't want to. And, if I do, people can read it or not. Their choice and I don't have to know about it or take offense if they don't! It's a perfect solution.
So here goes..... Some thoughts, feelings, experiences, memories, pictures, ideas, etc. and maybe, sometimes, the odd word of wisdom from a Canadian Great Grandma, who's stilltrekkin', plans to keep it up as long as she possibly can and how life is teaching me to dance in the rain.
Stay posted for more about what brings me to Nepal and who and what has been my "dancing teacher".
