What's New?

Sue Ellis • December 7, 2014

Another year is into its last month. It revs up, explodes and disappears. We begin a new one. I don't know when it is that we realize that there are fewer ahead than have gone. For each of us it is a different moment. Just as it is when we realize we are not as young as we used to be, or we are not as able as we once were, or we find it more difficult, or it takes longer to do things we found easy in the past. When ever it seeped into my reality - I've got it!!

What we do with it once we have it, will impact the rest of our life. How well we adjust to the changes has a lot to do with how we were taught and how our role models behaved. My friend Edith is preparing for her 102nd Christmas and still lives alone in her own home. She has a lot of wisdom to share about the subject.

So how do I face the changes? By constantly bringing the new into my life.

So to those who say to me What's New? This is what I tell them.

1. I'm getting my first smart phone and, who knows, I might learn to text if I see the need.

2. I've just downloaded a new fancy video editing program into my computer with a learning curve as big as a rainbow.

3. I decided on the four places I'm going to explore in 2015, so now I have to research them.

4. Since I can't crouch or kneel in my garden any more, I've planned my new raised vegetable garden for next spring.

5. AND here is the biggy. My new, improved, website. Learning curve as big as ...well you know. I'm discovering all sorts of new stuff. I've learned a new definition for the word slider - and I'm not talking baseball or small hamburgers - but those fascinating images that pop up on the top of my new welcome page. There is also a big difference if I create a post or a page, use a menu or a navigation label. So obviously I'm learning a new language.

Its all very challenging, but that is the point. How do I know of what I am capable, if I don't do it? In February I was on a camel in the Sahara Desert, and on foot climbed a huge sand dune to watch the sun set from almost the top. It was too crowded at the summit. I didn't think I could make it anywhere near. My young Berber camel man grabbed my arm and said "but you have to."

We can't have regrets. So I did it. Please enjoy the new website.

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