Coddiwompling Begins!

Welcome to 2019!

This is the year I turn 65; the year I am retiring from a rewarding work life.  What will the future bring?  I'm not sure, but I stumbled upon a great concept, that of coddiwompling.  Moving with purpose toward an unknown destination.  

Moving? - yes!  Purpose?  - yes! Unknown destination? you bet!

Along the way, I want to record my thoughts and doings, decisions made and turns taken. Not so much for others, although perhaps it will prove interesting, but so that I am more intentional about my life.

My Mom turned 91 this past December and started to write her life story.  I realized that I have mainly drifted through life, and if I had to write my story now, I don't think I would remember much about why I did the things I did, what was in my head or what influenced my choices.

So this blog is my attempt to be aware.  To savour and share the moments that mean the most to me.  If it seems self-indulgent, forgive me.  Oh, and I write in a "stream of consciousness" sort of way so if incomplete sentences make you crazy, you might not want to continue reading.

                                 You gotta get paddling if you want to get anywhere!  

Day one: January 1, 2019.  As the snow falls on an already-white landscape, I am heading to Vancouver where it is raining and where it will rain all week in fact.  Why am I leaving my home in the Cariboo on a STAT holiday?  Because I am going to be working in Vancouver for the next three days and want to be there for the minute the office opens tomorrow morning.  I could have flown in tomorrow and missed half the day getting there, but I wanted to make the most of my time.  So I am giving my employer a piece of my personal time.  This is my choice.  Not required of me, except by myself.  This is an example of my work ethic, and an example of the ownership I have over the program I manage and will soon be giving over to the care and feeding of someone else.  My retirement date is March 31st.  Right up until then I want to give my best effort so that I can leave knowing that I have done everything I can to ensure my "legacy" continues.  Three short months and no one has been hired to replace me yet.  So I travel to Vancouver on New Year's Day.

                                       The deck will be waiting when I get home.