Finding Myself Lost and Adrift: An Aha Moment
In the valley between two mountains
I had a massive aha moment this week.
My morning routine looks like this. Up around 06:00, usually with nudges from Bamber, my husband’s Guide Dog. His stomach will be grumbling. We go downstairs. I open the back door. Sometimes he’ll go out. Other times he’ll stick by my side as I weigh out his food, as though it might vanish if he doesn’t keep an eye on me.
Afterwards, toileted and with fresh water in his bowl, Bamber goes back upstairs for a snooze.
I make a coffee, sit in my favourite chair, and enjoy the peace and quiet in the house for half an hour. This is my sacred time before I go to the farm to get the hens up, feed and water them. Occasionally, if an idea is nagging at me, I’ll drink my coffee in my study, and write for a while.
As I checked the stats for a post I’d published yesterday, this caught my eye. And blew my mind.
Mapping the Journey
I’ve been putting together The Essence Map for around 15 years (maybe more). It was naive of me to think that there were no gaps in that story. After all, it’s an iterative and evolving journey.
In 2019, I resigned from my job as a Business Advisor. The sense of there must be something more has followed me for much of my life. And here it was again.