words
This morning, bag on arm and keys in hand, ready to leave the flat, I’m called back by the need to write. I seemingly have to let out some of the words that are jumbling round my head before I get on the bus and on with my day.
It is a strange time I am in. The weightless relief of a mere 6 weeks left at work is chased closely by the other weight that follows on its heels. One cannot be separated from the other. The blanket of impending goodbyes is stitched with the excitement of the next chapter.
Yesterday it was our weekly planning meeting in the bar downstairs from our office. “Are you coming?” asked my friend/colleague. “What should I tell them?” she then asked as I wrinkled my nose and shook my head. I shrugged, “That I leave in 6 weeks and just don’t give a s*** anymore?”. “Fair enough.”
There will be more on goodbyes, but for this morning, here’s a mental list I made on the bus yesterday morning of things I’d like to do in the first few months.
- Read
- Journal
- Seek out friends
- Yoga
- Run
- Take a photography class
- Get back into writing my screenplay (Melinda? it’s going to happen)
- Cook
- Make a room a home
- Play with children
- Find ‘magic’ spaces where I can work, inspired and undisturbed
- Buy an iPhone
- Sit in Sarah’s kitchen whenever I like
- Hold babies
- Breathe
- Pray
- Eat
- Love and be loved to within an inch of my belief
and through all this… working out what on earth I do next.
Heres a bit of love for you to start with!
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You are welcome to come hug my girls !!! not babies anymore though!
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Hm. I kinda think that if you do all the things on the list that last bit at the end will take care of itself.
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I’m glad I got a reprieve and get to be here when you arrive in the ‘Nash. God is good. All the time.
Present and accounted for. Yes, I look forward to you and the screenplay at least once a day. I also have an assortment of children you can play with/babies you can hold about seven hours south of Nashville.
Sweet Melinda, How I love thee and thy patience. I promise there’s good stories, and I PROMISE there’s a visit. 7 hours sounds like a perfect drive.
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Good to see “Buy an iPhone” was in the list
for a while i have read your blog and prayed for you ( honestley im not weird and stalker like.) i just followed a link from steve lawsons blog i just wanted to say goodbye from england and am really looking fwd to reading what you do next.
God Bless – he does amazing things.
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You’ve been on my mind all day, because I started reading _Bridget Jones’ Diary_ last night, and she reminded me of you….possibly just because of the British accent.
And please put on your list, “Go apple picking with Lisa and her kids at a farm in Mt. Juliet!” That would be nice.
bitch! stay in the uk!