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The Covid test results are back....  .... and negative. I suppose it's not a bad thing that I had the last two days to rest. Goodness knows, I don't take that much time to rest very often.  Maybe the universe was just trying to help me out with a nudge in the direction of self-care? Self-care is an interesting topic. Sometimes I think of it as resting. But honestly, self-care for me often looks like things that take energy.  Spending time with friends is a big one on my list of things that I find restorative. Family game nights with all the kids, even on Zoom- we laugh SO hard. Working on a quilt in the sewing room- or, just even playing with fabric in there (I like the planning as much as the actual creating). Fourteen-hour car trips to spend a couple of days watching dolphins (the dolphins part more than the car trip part anyway). And then, there are things that I don't enjoy doing, but I enjoy having done- like, cleaning the house.  I suppose exercise fits into that cate

So, there was this pandemic. We go about our day to day lives and while sometimes we stop to take stock, most of the time, we do what we always do.  We wake up and start our days- we go to work, we take care of our families, we pay the bills, we try to figure out what's for dinner, maybe we get some time in there for things that make our souls sing (family game night? time with a good book? laughing at a movie on TV? hanging out with friends? whatever it is that refreshes you).  And then, we go to bed, and we get up, and we do it all over again (apologies to The Kinks).  Once in a while though, something happens that makes us pause and examine what we're doing.  That can be something wonderful (winning the lottery??) but unfortunately, I find it's often the things that are hard to bear that pull me up short. In the case of this particular Sea Change for me, it started with an announcement that we were "going remote".  We didn't know how to do that. We scramble

So here we are again. I likely have The Virus- I was exposed earlier this week and have symptoms today. Mild, thankfully. I've had much worse. (Shout out to science and my vaccines and booster!) I'll test tomorrow so I have a definitive answer- or at least will hopefully have one.  This damn pandemic occupies way too much emotional and physical energy even when you're NOT infected. But I'm going to take this opportunity to do some writing here.  I struggle with down-time. In fact, I've been in my work email most of the morning arranging the things I would have done if I were there today.  I kind of don't mind it, I accepted positions with responsibility and so, I take responsibility. Probably I could do a better job setting things up so other people can step up in my absence.  I'll spend some time on that this year. Having said that, while I don't mind taking responsibility that I've accepted, I'm also getting a little tired of responsibility. He

I thought, well, writing a blog will be fun. But what I didn't think about was all that I have to do to set it up. What site to use? What background? What font? Page? Post? Gadgets? What does this all mean? So what you'll see as we go along is that I'm going to play. To experiment. To figure out, what DO gadgets do, anyway? Part of what I'm realizing is that I can get stuck- paralysis of analysis.  But what I want is to experience change this year. And so, I'm changing my reluctance to just put it out there. See how it looks. Tweak what needs to be changed. Keep what I love. I'm going to work on another theme this year: Silence the Inner Critic. Maybe I should make a list of themes... Until next time-

  W elcome! I'm not sure how to start but I suppose "welcome" is as good a start as any! The year ahead holds a lot of uncertainty, coming off the last two years of even more uncertainty.  The title of this blog, Sea Change, represents the start of my new chapter, which truly began last April, when we decided to throw caution to the wind and buy a condo (a shoebox of a condo, mind you) in North Topsail Beach, NC.  As is often the case, there is a story behind this, which I'll get to- eventually. For now, I wanted to start out by starting out. That, I believe, is going to be a theme for me this year: Get Started. My plan for this blog is to document the journey of my personal Sea Change- what informed the decision to take the leap, the steps along the way, and, hopefully, some important lessons learned as we go. Thank you for being part of my year of Sea Change!