The family had a great trip to south-eastern Arizona this last weekend for the spectacle that is Rex Allen Days (extra points for you if you know about this local holiday). It was nice to get out on the open road. The driving also provided some time to talk with my beautiful and always insightful wife. She really helped me get my mind right on a few things this weekend. This trip was an opportunity to get some plans in place, and to see the step I’m standing on, to take the next step up.
Driving helped me remember that the best is not behind us, but in front of us. It takes time and effort to get to where we’re going, and we have to enjoy the trip, crying baby in the car seat and all…
We truly are what we make of ourselves. We are a reflection of what we find important, and what we put our energy into.
I’ll tell you what though, I’m tired, I’m tired of working and never getting anywhere, but I’m realizing it’s because I’ve scraped every resource out of the ecosystem I’m living in, it’s time to get outside of the ecosystem, and become something more. It’s time to grow. Maybe we’re all like that. If we don’t get outside of our own personal ecosystems, we’ll never be more than that ecosystem will allow us to be. All along the way, we HAVE to give back to that ecosystem, to make it sustainable. We have to find a way to define who, what, and where we want to be, then find the way there, and drive.
When I get there, I’ll be home, and until I’m there, I’m on this road, tired and weary, but enjoying the trip, and paying attention as I go.