To new beginnings

This will be my official blogging site for 2009. I hope to share my journey with family, friends, and other such loved ones. A new adventure awaits in the air, an adventure of healing , soul searching, of simplifying life, and most importantly of helping others. Starting in August of 2008 I had decided to start an application for the Peace Corps. I have dreamed of joining since my high school days and the timing seemed perfect (almost perfect that is). Then I had to stop myself and ask, "Is there really any perfect timing for such an event? If life presented easy problems would we ever unearth our true pathway?". The house had diminished into an empty nest (shell) without the laughter of my children and grandchildren filling it. Yes, when they were home all was right with the world but the walls were hollow and full of echoes when they were gone. My nesting instincts had vanished with the lighting of a new pathway. Material items that filled the home had no value beyond necessity. Only those items that had been given to me by my loved ones held intrinsic value to me. I began to see that the home needed children and laughter again... Perhaps Jason would take it over? The possibilities seemed endless and the plan formulated forth.
Now after months of interviews, essays, paperwork, references, and health enquiries I'm heading for (hopefully) the invitation to join the Peace Corps. I should know within the next few weeks. I feel the growth possibilities will be unlimited and perhaps I will begin to learn how to center my life once again. When I'm able to focus on others, on positive engery forces, I grow in leapless bounds. I hate the avenue of self pity that I (OOOHH) can get caught up in when lonely and bored. Educating one's self, expanding one's creativity, meeting people from all walks of life....WOW! This stimulates me, excites me, causes huge growth patterns in my brain.
I have been told that the Peace Corps experience will be a raw adventure, an acceptance of other cultures and mindsets. Basic living novelties such as eating, dressing, exercising, and etc. will have to be revamped and relearned through new eyes. A new language will be learned (8 hours a day for 3 months ...exciting). And factors of isolation will have to be dealt with. I have always relied on family and friends when loneliness set in and now I would have to look inward. I'm working hard on this factor already. I need to prepare.
More to come....