Why we are saying NO to the BMW and leather pants option

Strangely, (yes, … surprisingly so …) it has taken a little time to get used to not working so much. We have had to stop ourselves getting busy, perhaps just out of habit. This week, we both felt like we were really beginning to relax into this slower paced schedule. However, what we have noticed is that with all this extra time there is a lot of room to think …. Something that can be a bit uncomfortable …. Questions like ‘What are we actually doing? … going to do?’ come up. It brings up some of those hidden fears about life and one’s place in it all. Stuff that, as Westerners, we are trained not to think about.

And so, we are sitting, we are talking, and just trying to get more comfortable with these feelings. It seems to us that our culture trains us to look to go somewhere, buy something, do something to get that neuro-peptide fix to take that feeling away. The key to us seems to be to do the opposite of what we are trained to do. So, sometimes we are just ‘be-ing’, keeping on, and seeing where we end up.

So, with these thoughts in mind, we told our estate agent this week to take our house of the market – we are staying put for now. We had thought that we would not be able to travel as freely with a house (versus a condo) – but for 3+ months of this year we have been overseas with no more hassle than some significant lawn mowing and weeding to do on our return. We do really like the peace around our home and how much nature is all about us. Andy has been volunteering at both the Whatcom Humane Society (walking, training and playing with dogs) and at the Whatcom Literacy Council teaching a class on basic reading and writing skills. Evan has been focusing more on learning and education. We have also been integrating more of the information we learnt from Caroline Myss at the workshop in Seattle and from her books – tricky stuff like trying to stop our egos! And sometimes they don’t want to be stopped ….
More next week, assuming our egos haven’t mounted a huge counterattack and we are too busy to blog because we are racing around the country in our new convertible BMWs, in Donna Karan leather pants, sipping on lattes ……

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“He who asks questions is always learning.” (Chinese Proverb)