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Back On Track
Ah, we’re so close to Autumn that you can almost taste it. Along with that bit of good news comes some help in my overall mending.
Progress Is Progressing
With the close call close behind me, I have a sense of impending progress on a number of fronts.
Physically
I left the hospital a week ago and I’m already much better than I was at that point. Sneezing is still an absolute horror, but most of the other items have dropped off the list of things not to do.
I’ve begun therapy on my sprained ankle at long last. The therapist is optimistic and the MRI doesn’t seem to indicate severe damage of any kind.
With Autumn just around the corner, I’m hoping that temperatures will return to tolerable ranges. Anything under 70° Fahrenheit is fine by me. I’m looking forward to days anywhere between 30-50°, but anything that doesn’t lead to continuous perspiration is a step in the right direction.
Mentally
It’s been a long time since I burned out in 2014. See Ferengi Rules Of Acquisition #86 and #90 for details on that.
There was a long period of reboot followed by a long period of regaining equilibrium. I’m not even sure I’m firing on all cylinders at this point, but I’m certainly feeling a lot more clear and creative than I have in quite some time.
I have returned to my writing and to my online endeavors as opportunity allows. The window of opportunity is expanding and I am increasingly capable of taking best advantage of it.
Spiritually
Well, there’s nothing like a miracle to remind one that there is more to this life than bills, bruises and burpacola. Having survived yet another close call in an otherwise uneventful life, I am concretely (or rather metallically and fiberglassically) reminded that I’m here at the pleasure and service of a power greater than my own personal will.
Whether you believe in a higher power of any kind or not, I do. It’s probably not quite the same kind of faith as a great many of my friends and family. All the same, I do believe in something and I’m more than a little aware that I’m here for a purpose not of my choosing or perhaps even of my knowing. Whatever the big picture is, I believe that I am here on purpose and that purpose is not yet done with me.
Whatever the grand purpose is and my creator’s desire to have me serve that purpose, I have the definite feeling that I’m meant to help people along the way as I’m doing whatever it is I’m meant to do. That gives me the greatest satisfaction. I may not always be good at it in many ways, but I really like to help where and when I can.
I Will Be Here
My wife is traumatized beyond belief by my recent scrape with disaster.
Fair enough.
Nevertheless, God clearly isn’t done with me yet and I’m not done with me yet.
It would be awesome if she could focus on the positive (I didn’t die) and let go of all the stuff that might have happened. It didn’t. It’s over. Let’s deal with the rest of our lives in the knowledge that I’ve got something that God wants me to be doing that hasn’t occurred yet.
Simple Gifts
Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship. ~Buddha
Nobody puts in a nutshell quite like the Buddha.
A lot of people who have an entrepreneurial itch seem to want to be supermegabazillionaires with a dozen Lamborghinis, a different Learjet for every day of the week and a yacht and private island to go for the weekend.
Not so with me. What I’d like seems as outrageously opulent compared to what I’ve had, but I’m not targetting the kind of self-absorbed, materialistic idiocy that a lot of online marketers obsess about.
For me, I’m just looking to make enough to live freely without having to depend on other people’s schedules, have enough to cover bills and enough left over to be of help to people who really need it. It seems simple, but it’s beyond the grasp of so many of us even in this land of opportunity and plenty.
I have simple needs and I’d like to be able to meet them without resorting to odious and exasperating means. That shouldn’t be too hard to manage (in theory).
I’m a big fan of keeping it simple, so the following song really strokes my heartstrings. I hope you find it stirring as well.
Simple Gifts
‘Tis the gift to be simple, ’tis the gift to be free
‘Tis the gift to come down where we ought to be,
And when we find ourselves in the place just right,
‘Twill be in the valley of love and delight.
When true simplicity is gained,
To bow and to bend we shan’t be ashamed,
To turn, turn will be our delight,
Till by turning, turning we come ’round right.
The seasons are turning (as usual) and as things are cooling down I’d like to think that after a long strange trip, it might just be time that we come ’round right. Stay tuned and I will keep you apprised of my progress.