Mid Life Sabbatical?

Sabbatical
Sabbatical

Mid Life sabbatical? Who needs one? Who has had one? Who’s ever had one handed to them as a midlife gift?

Dictionary.com says a Sabbatical is any extended period of leave from one’s customary work, especially for rest to acquire new skills or training, etc.

Sometimes though, when traveling down an unfamiliar road, expectations from those granting and those being granted, can be confusing at the same time they’re giving you butterflies.

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CMA’s on ABC

You're Missing Out If You Stereotype It
You're Missing Out If You Stereotype It

Ever start out with good momentum and then, almost before you started, you stop? No Christmas music last night. Instead, the CMA’s, Country Music Awards, on ABC.

Had actually fallen asleep before 8PM when the opening song woke me up. Glad it did.

Fell in love with Country Music 30 years ago while attending University of Idaho. Country Music has some of the greatest love songs ever written.

And George Strait’s song included a line that hit me like a lonesome freight train: “You just might miss the point if you don’t slow down”.

Been thinkin’ about this a lot lately. Way before last night. You?

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It’s Already Started

The Christmas decorations are up in many places, including the Magic Kingdom theme park. And two nights straight, we’ve listened to Christmas music.

When do you start to get in the Christmas spirit?

Of course, there are some Mid Life Celebration readers who don’t celebrate Christmas. All are welcome here.

Growing older, it seems the miracle of Christ’s birth is magnified, as we get closer to the time when we will no longer be here.

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But You’re The Internet’s Only…

One Of Florida's Nicest State Parks
One Of Florida's Nicest State Parks

The young children in your life are watching you. And you are making an impression they can actually articulate.

Ever have this happen to you?

On the weekend Cub Scout camping trip, I chose not to blog for two days.

So Saturday morning, when I reminded Chapin (10) I wasn’t blogging, he said, “But you’re the Internet’s only five-a-day blogger”!

Yes, and after 18 months of 7-days-a-week writing five daily blogs, the time has come to reclaim some life-balance.

Do you think he’ll notice?

Do you think the young people in your life notice?

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Sometimes Yes, Sometimes No

Lahti, Finland Street Improvements
Lahti, Finland Street Improvements

Are you thinking about the calculated risk(s) you want, or need, to take today?

Or have you given up on risks?

Thrive on risks?

Remember the Michelangelo post a few days ago? It would have been so much easier, and quicker, for him to paint the Sistine floor.

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