New Directions

Since the start of this blog, one continuing theme has been about seeking direction and taking opportunity...even when the direction and opportunity seem daunting. I've also said that a big part of that comes from letting go of the idea that I must wait until I have it all figured out before I take action. Leap, and the net will appear, so to speak.

In the next two weeks, I will be packing up and heading across the country to start my career as a child abuse treatment specialist in Virginia. I will temporarily leave behind my own children so they may finish their school year. I am even driving solo cross country. Being in a car alone with my thoughts for two days is something I have never done...let alone live by myself for a few months. The concept is almost as foreign an idea as the concept of traveling to Cambodia. Yet, the leap feels right.

How do we know if one direction over the other is for the better? Well, we don't, I suppose. We can seek direction from family, friends, colleagues or religion. It is true that no man is an island and we make decisions based on responsibility and kinship with others. At the end of the day, however, it all comes down to finding the time to see what direction we turn internally.There is a line from a song, which I love: "One foot in and one foot back, but it don't pay to live like that."

And so it begins...