February 28, 2020 - 168 - "How Old Will You Be If You Don't?"

Savoring the Moment

     The last few days we have been enjoying our new home in San Miguel.  

     This is a first.  

      We enjoyed it for Day of the Dead when the kids came down...but only very briefly.

   We created a house from the rubble...and then immediately had to return it to the 'Under Construction' state to finish things we couldn't get done in time for the festivities.

     All this to say that there hasn't been a lot of relaxing.

     We sat in the living room tonight and really looked around:    Wow.  So comfortable and pretty. 

Way Beyond Our Expectations

      We'd meticulously planned for, purchased for, and dreamed about each and every space.  But, now it's all in real-life 3-D...it seems a whole lot more than the sum of its parts.  

Just Letting Go of Control

     Michael was comparing the last year of restoration to restoring our house in Texas.  For both projects there were a lot of ups and downs.  Often it seemed the 'downs ' were winning.

     Somehow tonight when Michael was talking about giving up a year of our lives for each of these projects, I thought of a little exchange I'd read somewhere:

    A woman wanted to go back to college and get her degree and talked to a friend about it.  

Friend:  You should just go for it.

Woman:  I really want my degree...but, realistically, how old will I be when I'm finally holding one??

Friend:   "How old will you be if you don't?"

"Giving Up" Your Life to Restoration Hell

     I can't really imagine a life of constantly rehabbing houses.  Some people do it as a business, which I admire, but I can't imagine doing it for any reason other than the vision of what life in a space can be.

     We were reminiscing about just how difficult, and time-consuming, it all was.

    But I thought of that interchange and felt satisfied:  A year would have passed anyway...we may as well have gotten all we could out of the time passing.

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"I don't want to sit on the sidelines and not value the gift of being 

here.  Instead of the idea of time ticking away, the grains of sand running out, I try to think of time as giving me another grain of sand, another gift.  So time passing is an accumulation, rather than a diminisher."

-Tori Amos

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"Time keeps on slippin', slippin', slippin' into the future.

-Steve Miller Band

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"Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it.  The time will pass anyway."

-Earl Nightingale