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Perhaps not surprisingly, we still feel a bit tired and breathless around here. Behind the scenes, you won't know, we've spent the past couple of months with our small apartment -- pied-à-terre in the city until we moved here permanently from the island -- on the market, then sold, and now just a week until the closing date. So packing up and cleaning, making more decisions about what to keep, what to give away. And meanwhile, we have only a few more days with our newlyweds and their little one.

Despite the busy-ness, the emotional intensities, I seem to be arriving at some clarity about what I want to focus on at this stage of retirement, finally feeling somewhat settled in our new urban lifestyle. I'm making up schedules to support, accommodate, perhaps even enforce these priorities, and I'm anticipating more time with friends; more attention to my writing life; more gym time and longer running distances; and transformation of the lovely garden we were left by the previous owner into one that is truly ours, that expresses and extends our new city home.

I started a new journal yesterday with lists of tasks and an accompanying dayplanner, and one of those lists comprises topics for my next week or two of blog posts: some Short and Sweet posts about progress on our Terrace Garden; a What I Wore post on my mother-of-the-bride dress, inevitably, I suspect, accompanied by a few words about seeing our last child married; another What I Wore post gathering up a few of the outfits I've enjoyed wearing lately. Besides these shorter posts, I'm planning to write one or two more sustained pieces, one about The Continuing Waves of a Big Move/Retirement, and another about Friends(hip) Old and New. The latter will perhaps overlap, content-wise, with the former.

Not at all sure how this scheduled approach will play out, nor even why I feel I need to tell you I'm adopting it. But I guess it has something to do with working my way through Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way and working to accept, even represent myself as trying to "Write" without immediately following that with all kinds of qualifications (I've only ever had a few academic articles published, nothing "creative"). Part of that demands that I take my effort, my goal, seriously enough to block out time for it, even, perhaps, to think of it as Work (in the positive sense of the term).

I also think that telling you about it has something to do with the process of Retiring and Making a Big Move; the way those have affected my sense of Identity; my awareness of, and dismay over, a fair amount of floundering that you've probably registered here; and my hope that I'm setting some direction now, that it might be a direction you're interested in reading about as I move forward.

And since you're asking (yes, I can hear you ;-) I am continuing to plug away at that writing I've alluded to, and someday perhaps I'll even be able to tell you more about it. It's been on the back burner this past week or so, but I've booked a coffee-and-writing date with myself later this week.

Do you think it's Spring's onset that's spurring me on? All these leaves unfurling, blossoms opening, insisting on our trying to match the exuberant renewal and growth? . . . . Exemplifying that idea in the photos above are the leaves of a splendid and sizeable ornamental maple that was left here for us -- I've been quite mesmerised by the delicacy of its emergent foliage and couldn't resist sharing a few photos with you.

Now tell me: do you feel an urge, in the Spring, toward new projects? Or did you get all that underway at the New Year? or, as used to be more the case for me, do you save new starts for the Fall? I must admit I'm a bit apprehensive about longer, lighter days calling me outside, fine for the Running, the Gardening, the Visiting with Friends, but perhaps not so promising for establishing and maintaining some solid writing habits. Advice? Encouragement?

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