My life is about to change again. I retire from being a community mental health therapist in two weeks and I’m excited. There are things to do to close out a caseload and say goodbye to people I have come to love and treasure as they shared their lives with me. I am married a second time to a wonderful man who has worked through his own life changes and challenges and is loving, kind and generous. My kids are grown and on their own in new adventures of their own. I am making choices in what to add into my new open schedule and have already committed to spiritual adventures and roads, travel plans with a friend from out of state and catching some Major League Baseball games with the spouse, maybe with a National Park or two included.
It’s sort of scary to start a new chapter. Former chapters have been challenging and character building over the past two decades. I have survived a sibling who passed with colon cancer, the death of both father and mother and healed from a divorce. I am looking forward to being a grandmother and trying not to coach my grown kids and let them live their own lives freely.
Tonight I came across the idea again of posting a blog. I’ve been here before but life got busy and I am better now at keeping to a daily time of reflection, being intentional about important things like writing scripture and reading the Bible with daily prayer. I am one who watches the news and cries for my former home of North Carolina where my first child was born. I have a love of the Tennessee/North Carolina mountains and hurt for the people there after the flooding in Asheville and the surrounding counties. Help is on the way, even from Florida. It still amazes me how the humans in this world come to help their neighbor. Should it? No, we are all here to help our neighbors and feel for the person next door and ask ourselves what can I do to help?
Starting my Next Life Adventure. 
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