Life is a Funny Thing
Life is a funny thing. Just when you have it down you realize that the next generation is moving in to take over. Today I talked with my son on the phone. He is a “September” birthday and so he was telling me he was beginning to feel his age, at a mere 33 years old. That is when it came to me that the next generation is here. Taking care of our business, it seems like just the other day I was in my thirties.
But now I have shifted into the “older” generation. Still with energy, still with dreams, still with life left to live. But it is a different life than the thirties. That is when you are making your way in business, in relationship, education and raising children.
What I find is that now is the time for reflection, enjoyment and doing the things that I want along with the things I have to. Who has time for that when you have kids to get off to school, ballet or soccer? Let alone plan a date with your significant other? I find that my friends and family in the boomer stage are reinventing themselves. My younger sister who turned 50 this past year found her boomer muse in a newsletter she has created. In “Quotes and Wisdom” (http://www.quotesandwisdomnewsletter.com/) it offers her an opportunity to share with others how your life is evolving and she states on her website, “My newsletter is for those to enjoy so you can create a better life for yourself. I want to see some positive thoughts in the world! Join me on this trip to turn the world around to a place we all want to be living in instead of just merely existing and allowing things to happen to us.”
If that sounds like something you might enjoy just click on the link above and enjoy!
I have found another path. Education and well being, this means school and I eat the good stuff, walk two miles a day. What I like about walking is it gives me time to sort the day out that I have planned. Being a morning walker I get an opportunity to organize my world for the day before I get started. My husband walks in the afternoon. He finds that is the best time for him. Walking just helps on so many levels and years ago I would walk daily with my sister (the one doing Quotes and Wisdom) and it would avail us of the opportunity to gabbed about well, everything! We found we did better once we had a good gab about world politics, the state of the ozone, raising kids, raising husbands. Or just in need of a good bitch fest.
Needless to say I am an avid proponent of walking. It takes no special clothes, no special shoes, no gym fees and no set up time. Just walk out the front door and off you go. I walk two miles a day because I am not into doing more that will set me up for failure. I have time for two miles and it works. I am not a marathon type person. Just want to get the job done and move on for the day, you know?
I can still feel my biological clock ticking but now I have a place to be in life while my children and all the other thirty somethings can build their dreams.
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Depends on where you live, what gardening zone you are in, what kind of gardener you are, etc. These are vital questions to ask. One very important thing I do when I move into a new zone is walk around the neighborhood and see what people are growing in the area. That tells me alot about what the soil is like, seasons, etc. Two other things I do is 1) get a soil sample from my local county extension office. That tells me what nutrients are in my soil and what will grow best in it. And 2) I got to local garden shops more than major retailers. The locals have great advice.
You reminded me that I have not shared more gardening tips as of late. And here I am getting ready for winter! I live in the south and right now we are having a false summer. My plants are over reacting and trying to come up! Bummer as a freeze will come sooner than later!