Hellooooo out there in blogland.

Two months since my last posting.  Ouch!  I have been preoccupied with work, travels, new projects, and most importantly, buying, renovating, and moving into a new home.

The process isn’t done yet, but we’re almost there.  I find that these things are always larger undertakings than one imagines.  They’re not unmanageable, just a little unwieldy and definitely enough to set you off your rhythm.

What’s more, I was out of the country on both the day we closed the purchase of our new home, and the day we closed the sale of our existing home.  Special huh?  In fact, I was also away on the day we bought the new home (and the day we bought our previous home).  Do you detect a theme here?  Hmmm.

None of these things were really a problem, but I did notice that it interfered with my ability to really connect with what was happening.

It reminded me of a more general principle about life.

We often fly through life, not really connecting with many of its important events as they happen.  What a shame.  I’ve definitely done it on different occasions, and when it’s happened I’ve often regretted it.  I don’t want to just coast along numbly through life.  I want to experience it.  I think it makes the journey richer.

So, for this round of change in my life I’ve been taking some moments here and there to let it sink in.  I need more of them; I can feel it.  I’ll get there.