For the first 50 years of my life, my perfectionist self mistakenly believed it was all about knowing more, getting it right, planning, attempting to prevent bad things from happening, and keeping all of my chicks in a row. It took me this long to discover that the JOURNEY is all that matters. This quote from Gilda Radner sums it all up:

"I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.
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Sunday, February 24, 2013

Change

"If you're in a bad situation, don't worry.  It'll change.   If you're in a good situation, don't worry. It'll change."  ~John A. Simone, Sr.

This year will be a year of change.

Adam will be graduating from Middlebury College in May.  He's in the process of finding a job for a year before going on to graduate school.

Annie will be graduating from high school in June.  Over the past month, she has been auditioning on saxophone at various music schools.   She will be going away to college in the fall.

Kerry is looking for summer nursing jobs in Vermont - it might be the first summer that she doesn't live at home.

Vance just quit his job at Travelers last week for a position at a smaller insurance company in Hartford.

And after my first year in business, I've been making changes based on all I've learned last year in preparation for a new year of photography.

Change is inevitable.

But no matter how exciting change may be,  it's hard not to feel some degree of sadness for the times you are leaving behind and some degree of apprehension for the uncertainty the future holds.

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