Well, my introduction to the wide world of blogging.
It’s a time for firsts. In a few weeks I will begin an adventure far different from anything I have ever done..
The butterflies are in constant motion at this point. The questions of my sanity will not be stilled. And the excitement is almost overwhelming.
For years I have lived vicariously through my children as they have continued to take risks and move beyond themselvs. i have pretty much stayed the course and taken the safe way.
Deanna, though she remains within the confines of the United States, has launched her own business and along with her friend, Shannon, has risked it all for the sake of the future. Stacy, my wander-lusting daughter, now resides in Ghana, West Africa, where she is living a dream that has been inside her since she was a child.
So maybe it’s time for me to take the leap.
For Christmas last year Stacy’s gift to me was a World Atlas. It’s a massive thing that weighs a ton and which uncovers every corner of our globe. When I opened the package she said, “This is your future, Dad.”
So, in the next months I will be living as a foreigner, an alien, immersed in a culture and language totally foreign to me. I will be living within the unfamiliar and pushing myself against my own limits.
I do so trusting that who I am and what I dream will be what I need to allow me to survive and to grow in ways I have not yet even imagined.
it’s time to begin living it instead of just dreaming about it.
So, Hello, world!
Ready or not, here I come!