today i think, what have i gained professionally in twenty odd years apart from strong opinions and a clutch of qualifications? my friends are the movers and shakers. i stay home and wonder if it is worth the effort to begin again in a new place at my age.
then i recount my gains:
my family, which trumps any professional achievement.
the privilege of quantity with the children, without which quality is a dream.
the great privilege of being able to inform my children's worldview.
the partnership, friendship, comfort, of my lover.
the exhilaration of frivolously, confidently, living, because i know this is non-accidental.
there is a time... my times will change. but i am grateful for these years of building and planting and uprooting and weeping and dancing and loving.
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