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She sat at her desk shaking her head. Ugly office sounds everywhere. Here she was a fish out of water. Closing her eyes, she transported herself to a breathtaking view. Butterflies land on wildflowers nearby to the tune of insects buzzing in the breeze. Droplets of rain create reflections of tiny orbs. The pungent aroma of wet leaves and moistened dirt penetrated the crisp clear breathing space. The place she connected with. The calm it brought. A place she longed to be, away from the voices and clatter. Somewhere to wander trails, listen to her heart beat with nature. 99 WORDS...AND A LITTLE BIT MOREVarious thoughts of being a fish out of water were spawned (no pun intended) with this week’s prompt from CRLC. Some I put pencil to paper, only to unceremoniously draw a line through them before moving onto the next. My preliminary creations required that I step further outside my comfort zone than what was normally accepted. But alas, my heart knows me better than anyone and those snippets of words will be kept for another day of writing. I kept going back the words I might be heard to say, “It is where I am from that takes me on a journey to where I go.” And, truth be known, even that can take me beyond the walls of comfort; but not on this day. Growing up, it was a given that our parents were okay with the options our future might present to us. Post-secondary education, marriage, children, travel, etc., all fell under the heading of our choice, with their support. I don’t mean support in terms of finance, I mean support in, “If that’s what you think you need to do, we’ll have your back as best as we can.” Believe it or not, that help often as not came from being able to visit home, and participate in things we took for granted in our growing up years. For me, saddling a horse to ride for hours through the bush, sitting in the hayloft just listening to the sounds, enjoying the smells or wandering my parent’s property on foot, visiting favourite spots, some grown over and lost in childhood memories. My time on these excursions gave me a huge gift - sending me back into my adult life with a feeling of calm, rejuvenation, and ready to tackle the next chapter of where I would journey. Now my connection comes from hours of gravel travel, wandering trails, and surrounding myself with friends who are like family to me. They, like me, understand and maybe live that life I speak of. Embracing this journey of where I am from that keeps me grounded on this amazing adventure to wherever it is I might be going.
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99 WORDS...AND A LITTLE BIT MORE
Most of us work the majority of our lives for someone else. I am no different. Yet in the background, behind the day to day humdrum of getting up, going to work, coming home, I spent hours, days, weeks, slowly creating and preparing for a life I thought I needed. The words, “Life got in the way,” was never an excuse. Let’s face it, life travels on for all of us regardless of what happens on a day to day basis. That journey became part of the bigger plan. Learning curves and collecting a bounty of knowledge in a plethora of topics. I will be the first to tell you that all of those topics were not necessarily high on my radar of doing or sharing. However, they are now in my mind encyclopaedia, available for me to draw on to enhance the areas I am passionate about. All of the years I was employed in the corporate world, I gathered information, became knowledgeable and proficient in as many facets of running a business as possible. Everything from accounting, logistics, dealing with difficult people, and finding the right suppliers. Believe me when I say decades of working for someone else paid off about fifteen years ago when Steve and I decided to start our own company. The what to do and not do in the corporate world of small business was already ingrained within the grey cells. Stepping away from years of others determining when I could take time for me was fairly easy. I brought with me experiences and knowledge that can never be taken away. Old school, work every time ways that migrated over the years to technology makes it easier ways. Behind our backs, there is a younger generation shaking their heads at our old fashioned tactics of doing business. They can laugh all they want because at the end of the day, I can provide a set of corporate books without the use of a computer program. We slowly maneuvered the ducks into a row, building the foundation of our own company. Although there are still times it’s more like trying to herd cats, but that’s what keeps it fun. Is retiring from the so called real world a case of jumping from the frying pan into the fire? Maybe so, but now it’s my door to unlock and my fire to fuel or snuff out. The hours I work and projects I work on, became my decision to make. I am happy to embrace at least part of the life I thought I wanted, needed and envisioned so many, many years ago. There is so much to look forward to when you escape from the corral through the gate of, ‘Here I Come’. Every brings thoughts of projects I am working on - shall I spend the day writing, reading, baking - try something new - maybe some gravel travel. Now that makes me laugh, because any day, other than when we are entertaining a blizzard or 40 degrees below zero, is a good day for gravel travel.
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