My take? As someone who's moved an average of once every six months for the past nineteen years? Sure, there were job issues and relationship issues and affordable housing issues, but underlying all of that was the desire for change, for new experience, for not being stuck, for living creatively. Moving involves change. Change is growth. Change is learning. When we stop learning, we start dying... Love your writing, Jan.
You write so well 👏 I have felt that same call or pull and for me it’s like Abraham in the Hebrew Bible… called out to a place he knew not where.. he too finding his home in finding who he was ❤️
I have made several attempts to move out of Illinois and have had several job opportunities, but family responsibilities hindered those. My dream is to purchase a home in Switzerland. It would be a 4 to 5 hr train ride to visit you in Italy!!!
I just adore Anais Nin! Always love hearing how she's affected others as well. Have you read "The Novel of the Future"? It's such an important book for me. Was she influential on your writing too?
Sorry for changing the subject, just got a little excited!
Jan, I had not seen that Anais Nin quote before but I love that you have been carrying those words around since you were 16! Did you know at the time that they would help pull you through this (ongoing!) journey?
For me, I got an outdated Sierra Club calendar at a garage sale sometime in high school with pictures of Wyoming (where I've yet to visit) and Arizona, and knew that I always wanted to live in a landscape that dramatic (much more so than where I grew up). My recent newsletter is about this very thing, my first big move at age 23, 2,000 miles away. Your ruminations are very much on my mind!
I do understand why you must move, and reading about your experiences helps me understand my own. Thank you!
She. I was studying I remember living away from my parents alone in a different city where I knew no one , although I was a paying guest , it was still a new world to me but I think I loved it
When my husband and I met in 1977, we each had a five year old son from a previous relationship. We've spent many, many years trying to figure out how to spend time with both families. Finally, we just moved from our long-time home in the Berkshires to a summer/fall condo in the Twin Cities near one son. We'll be spending winter/early spring in northern California near the other son. I don't think I realized how starved I was for family until we finally got this together.
My take? As someone who's moved an average of once every six months for the past nineteen years? Sure, there were job issues and relationship issues and affordable housing issues, but underlying all of that was the desire for change, for new experience, for not being stuck, for living creatively. Moving involves change. Change is growth. Change is learning. When we stop learning, we start dying... Love your writing, Jan.
You write so well 👏 I have felt that same call or pull and for me it’s like Abraham in the Hebrew Bible… called out to a place he knew not where.. he too finding his home in finding who he was ❤️
I have made several attempts to move out of Illinois and have had several job opportunities, but family responsibilities hindered those. My dream is to purchase a home in Switzerland. It would be a 4 to 5 hr train ride to visit you in Italy!!!
I just adore Anais Nin! Always love hearing how she's affected others as well. Have you read "The Novel of the Future"? It's such an important book for me. Was she influential on your writing too?
Sorry for changing the subject, just got a little excited!
Jan, I had not seen that Anais Nin quote before but I love that you have been carrying those words around since you were 16! Did you know at the time that they would help pull you through this (ongoing!) journey?
For me, I got an outdated Sierra Club calendar at a garage sale sometime in high school with pictures of Wyoming (where I've yet to visit) and Arizona, and knew that I always wanted to live in a landscape that dramatic (much more so than where I grew up). My recent newsletter is about this very thing, my first big move at age 23, 2,000 miles away. Your ruminations are very much on my mind!
I do understand why you must move, and reading about your experiences helps me understand my own. Thank you!
She. I was studying I remember living away from my parents alone in a different city where I knew no one , although I was a paying guest , it was still a new world to me but I think I loved it
When my husband and I met in 1977, we each had a five year old son from a previous relationship. We've spent many, many years trying to figure out how to spend time with both families. Finally, we just moved from our long-time home in the Berkshires to a summer/fall condo in the Twin Cities near one son. We'll be spending winter/early spring in northern California near the other son. I don't think I realized how starved I was for family until we finally got this together.