I love this article. I agree - things don’t always end or even proceed as we wish they wuld…but they always unfold with the lessons we need to learn. I’ll remember that as I begin my new spin around the sun. 🌞
Congratulations! My husband and I are going to renew our lease in a tiny house in the mountains we moved into last October. I never expected to have my neighbors be well, farmland. I was ever the city girl until last year.
And I can relate to the creatures! This summer we have had mice, ants, and last week we had a five-foot black and yellow garden snake in our office!!!!
Jan, I totally commune with this post! I love the idea that signing that lease grounds you in the present, and I think it does. And Berea. I hear it is a wonderful little town and college. My friend and I were supposed to take a trip there and never quite made it. I have been to Yellow Springs, Ohio, home of Antioch College about a million times and love it there, and if I will stay in Ohio, I'd like to live there. I've heard Yellow Springs and Berea have a similar vibe.
Loved this post! Funny how we say we’re done then we realize we aren’t! Also, total bookshelf envy.
Three years ago after moving to a small (as in tiny) rural town, we were presented with the opportunity to purchase a then 116-year-old building that used to be a hardware store. No vision for it...we just felt like it was what we were supposed to do. We rent it as an event venue, but that just pays the bills while we wait for all the pieces to line up for the nonprofit things we want to do there like a place where teens can gather after school to study, have a snack, hang out. Maybe some tutoring. Who knows. Some days I wonder why in the world would we sink all this money into this old place?! But then I have a moment where I am reminded to be patient and watch it unfold.
I completely relate to your take on decision making. I’m a recovering over-thinker. Doubt keeps me in mind mind, anxious, wavering -- making a choice allows me to stay in the present moment and feel active in my life.
Jan: I like Oklahoma
Kent: We can no longer be friends. :)
I love this article. I agree - things don’t always end or even proceed as we wish they wuld…but they always unfold with the lessons we need to learn. I’ll remember that as I begin my new spin around the sun. 🌞
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Congratulations! My husband and I are going to renew our lease in a tiny house in the mountains we moved into last October. I never expected to have my neighbors be well, farmland. I was ever the city girl until last year.
And I can relate to the creatures! This summer we have had mice, ants, and last week we had a five-foot black and yellow garden snake in our office!!!!
Just signed a lease. Your writing helps me so much!
Jan, I totally commune with this post! I love the idea that signing that lease grounds you in the present, and I think it does. And Berea. I hear it is a wonderful little town and college. My friend and I were supposed to take a trip there and never quite made it. I have been to Yellow Springs, Ohio, home of Antioch College about a million times and love it there, and if I will stay in Ohio, I'd like to live there. I've heard Yellow Springs and Berea have a similar vibe.
Loved this post! Funny how we say we’re done then we realize we aren’t! Also, total bookshelf envy.
Three years ago after moving to a small (as in tiny) rural town, we were presented with the opportunity to purchase a then 116-year-old building that used to be a hardware store. No vision for it...we just felt like it was what we were supposed to do. We rent it as an event venue, but that just pays the bills while we wait for all the pieces to line up for the nonprofit things we want to do there like a place where teens can gather after school to study, have a snack, hang out. Maybe some tutoring. Who knows. Some days I wonder why in the world would we sink all this money into this old place?! But then I have a moment where I am reminded to be patient and watch it unfold.
Thank you, Jan, for giving me more time to visit you in OK! 💛
I completely relate to your take on decision making. I’m a recovering over-thinker. Doubt keeps me in mind mind, anxious, wavering -- making a choice allows me to stay in the present moment and feel active in my life.