Starting Over
Learning to live with the mess and just deal with it, one day at a time
I had to close my previous Substack and start fresh. I had signed up at the start of this year when I was in the full-on hysteria of the current political climate and my feed was full of screaming talking heads and non-stop videos about the end of Democracy, the end of the world, the end of the end. It was absolutely wrecking my mental health so I closed the account… but then I missed some of the people I had been following (hi Rosie) and the calmer voices, the writers, the seekers, the people at/near retirement age and trying to figure out what the hell to do with themselves. So here I am… again. Brokenhearted about the current state of things, but not giving up. I do believe we shall overcome this tyranny of the cruel and incompetent and oh so corrupt, but it may take a while.
And in the meantime and whatever time it is I have left here, I want to try to focus on some of the positives in life. The little things that remind me that there still is good in this world and there are places and moments where we can fill our souls. I tweaked my feed and am keeping my identity a bit more undercover just in case I do end up taking one more corporate gig to get me to full retirement… although I am not hopeful at my age and not even sure that would be a good thing. But it’s good to reconnect here and see the bigger picture.
Me? As stated above, I am an almost, but not quite, fully retired tech worker. Once and potentially future American Expat. Having returned to the US from a long stint of living elsewhere, I am not sure where “home” is these days but staying in the US long-term seems less and less likely. I am a wife and a mother to a wonderful, talented son who is living his own life and persuing his dreams. Avid reader and very lazy writer. Love coffee, well made television shows and movies (Tony Gilroy is a genius). Traveler, museum and art history lover, desert dweller although I miss the Pacific Ocean. If you find me here, say hello.
I wouldn’t have subscribed to your previous stack, but it looks like the path you are on now resembles mine, although I had never planned it. I spent 2-3 decades in Silicon Valley, corporate America reaching for the glass ceiling. At 51 I said, enough. The story is in my earliest post. I needed more balance in my life and ended up in Mexico. Looks like you’re following your heart and soul. I say, “You go girl.” Thank you for subscribing.