Have been offline for the last few days, planning, packing, putting things in place. They say life turns in seven year cycles, and after seven years in Europe, I'm moving to Seattle tomorrow afternoon. Hard to believe I'm going to take a taxi to the airport like I usually do, get on an airplane like I usually do, and then not live here anymore.
I'm not complaining - it's going to be interesting, all goes well. It's just a real mindbender to think about how long I've been here, and everything that's happened in the last seven years. I don't even recognize the guy that landed at Amsterdam Schiphol in 2000 with no assets and barely any ideas. I was a flaming wreck then. Fox knows I'm a lot better off on this flight back. And it won't end here - there will be more moves in the future, I know that the way I know the sun will rise tomorrow.
My stuff is packed. I have a few paperwork and technology issues need to fix tomorrow morning but I'm basically on the launchpad, countdown running down towards the inevitable zero. I feel a strange stillness, and a clarity or lucidity that I very rarely experience. I'm grateful for that.
Change is essential to evolution.
Posted by case at September 2, 2007 10:47 PM