I've been missing for a few days getting ready to go, going, and coming back from a memorial service in Tidewater, Oregon. It was mid-week so we had to head down in the morning yesterday and then head back after the service -- making one very long day and 9 1/2 hours in the car.
We lost Pam's Aunt Nancy to a brain tumor. It came on quickly and took her even more quickly. There was a lot of stuff to learn from her and some of it I only learned yesterday talking to and listening to her friends.
Nancy, it seems, made room for everyone in her heart and found great friends by being open to the possibility. And these people weren't acquaintances of hers. Some had only known her 5 or 6 years but were close friends. That's pretty rare really.
She lived her life and was not lived BY life. What I mean is that she did what she wanted to do. She saw something she wanted to do and did it and found places she wanted to see and saw them. No apologies, just action. Her recipes didn't always work and her knitting was always interesting, but she cooked and she knitted. She did stuff.
At 62 she hardly saw and did everything she wanted to see and do, but she was after those items that she still had on the lists. As much as anyone can, I think she left without regrets of things she didn't do when she could.
This post is about reaching - always reaching - for the things you want to do and see. It's about honoring the memory of someone who laid a plan for doing just that. The rule that has always worked for Pam and I is that if you book it you will go. So, book it. Go. Do it.
Enjoy the people in your life that make you happy and avoid the people that make you feel anything short of happy. Chase your passions. Make dreams goals and go get them now. Life is short. Don't spend any more time than necessary waiting.
Be well and more soon....
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