Vacation before the plunge into my new life

What a perfect time for reflection on life and all the sudden changes. I'm driving back from a wonderful family vacation where we went to my "little" cousin's wedding and then to Yosemite National Park. It was a fantastic and memorable trip. I have not had a vacation for a long while, so the timing was serendipitous!

 

I got the job, the new car and helped find a great girl to fill my nanny position! It all was swift and felt fated. The job came fast - I was hired in exactly a weeks span from finding out I was a candidate. My bosses are friendly, fun and knowledgeable. That alone is reassuring as I'm nervous to jump into a brand new career that I know little about. They did mail me a heavy employee manual - it came in a box, not an envelope! I start next Monday, and I am excited for this new chapter. Stability, regular schedule and benefits will be so welcome after a few years of juggling many jobs and sporadic scheduling. Plus my new car feels so grown up as if it is metaphorically driving me straight into this first page of adulthood.

Vacation was a cleansing of the palate, a breathe of fresh air and space to process and prepare. Life gave me an interlude complete with bonding with family and uniting with nature and the greater picture. How wonderful when it's a time I could be consumed with myself amidst the change, the wreck, the excitement. I'm reminded again of what is truly valuable. If all was suddenly shed away, I'd still have the unshakeable ties and love from my dear ones, the beauty of the natural world and breath that sustains. Grateful is not strong enough of a concept to reflect my internal state - neither is awed, humbled - it's so much more. :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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