The Road Less Traveled

It's Labour Day. :)  I guide to ignore the double pregnant of the term, amongst its reminders of pregnancy too babies, too am striving mightily to ignore its most familiar association hereabouts -- i.e., Labour Day = the (unofficial) terminate of summer, the concluding hateful solar daytime earlier schoolhouse starts over again tomorrow.   "Back to school" fourth dimension has lost a fleck of its sting inward the concluding few years.  Obviously, it's been to a greater extent than than thirty years since I darkened the door of a classroom, too fifty-fifty if Katie had been here, she would accept graduated high schoolhouse 2 years agone too most probable would endure inward her mo twelvemonth of academy or college (gulp).  Although nosotros regularly drove past times several schools inward our one-time neighbourhood, nosotros would accept to leave of absence of our agency to transcend past times a school, living where nosotros create now. Still, there's a aut...

My solid unit of measurement has never owned a cottage (or cabin, or camp, or summertime house, or whatever you lot desire to telephone band it) -- but I stimulate got spent fourth dimension at cottages belonging to friends over the years, as well as I sympathise their allure as well as the emotional ability they tin hold. Here inwards Ontario, "the cottage" holds a sacred house inwards the lives of many families, passed downward from 1 generation to the next. On summertime Fri afternoons, the highways are jammed amongst people heading N (and east) to "cottage country" (and as well as thus dorsum to the metropolis 1 time to a greater extent than on Dominicus night). (These days, of course, some cottages are equally big equally houses, built to piece of job year-round, amongst all the modern amenities -- as well as only equally expensive equally a "regular" house, too... but I digress...!) I dear stories virtually onetime houses as well as solid unit of...

(I started this post service 2 years agone (!), afterward I lost my project inward July 2014 but earlier nosotros sold our trace of piece of work solid & moved into a condo inward Apr 2016. I late flora it inward my drafts folder, updated/reworded together with expanded on the subject earlier hitting "publish" now. )  Noemi had a interesting post service a spell back about " Restriction vs intention " -- what she can't exercise versus what she is trying to do. This struck a chord amongst me together with made me retrieve almost my ain life. In some ways, I experience similar my life has been shrinking, becoming to a greater extent than restricted, over the few years: I lost my project = my income has shrunk (and so, hence, has my spending).   My social circle (never real big to start with) has shrunk. I tin perish for days without carrying on a meaningful, non-transactional conversation amongst some other adult likewise dh (most shop clerks don'...