Finding our way to The Way one situation at a time. I don't know how great it will be, but I expect it will be interesting, and I look forward to it going on past all reason because wonder is just that way. Are you coming or not?
At the Pier — Silver Lake Sunset, Ocracoke Island, Cape Hatteras National Seashore, North Carolina
I'm sending my images to a stock photography company, thinking that I would prefer that they collect dust on an external hard drive in a cardboard box in one of their closets than in one of my closets, which would become one of my daughters closets in due time. It is my way of eternalizing my body of work. This is on of the images making the We Transfer journey from here to there, along with all the rest of the worthy ones. I am enjoying the process of finding, re-processing, and sending them to their new home--and is a good way of coming to terms with my own passing, as good a way as I can imagine of "achieving" "eternal life."
On another level there is the matter of reflecting on our life that we all need to do daily, to the point of new realizations, and a shift in the way we go about our business before we die. To live cognizant of our living is the best way I can imagine to go about dying. So, I endeavor to live today the way I lived yesterday in terms of being who I say I am and doing what I think is called for, where, when and how it is called for, and keeping the self-deceptions and the BS to an absolute minimum.
How are you coming along with that? The best of luck with it all the way the rest of the way!
I'm retired, and still finding my way--but now, I don't have to pretend that I know what I'm doing.
I retired after 40.5 years as a minister in the Presbyterian Church USA, serving churches in Louisiana, Mississippi and North Carolina. I graduated from Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, in Austin, Texas, and Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana. My wife, Judy, and I have three daughters, five granddaughters, one great granddaughter, and a great grandson on the way, within about ten minutes from where we live--and are enjoying our retirement as much as we have ever enjoyed anything.
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