60 Seconds for Story Prompt Friday: This! Is the Life I Want

Hello to you listening in Gaborone, Botswana!

Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is 60 Seconds for Story Prompt Friday.

Perhaps like me you have spent time looking for something but you didn’t know what it was.

I felt stuck in the cross-roads of my life where the true way was wholly lost to me. So, 4 years ago I left everything I knew, a home and community of 20 years, a very successful nationally recognized litigation consulting practice and drove 1500 miles washing up on the shores of Whidbey Island. Why Whidbey? Pretty place, nice people, good pie.

Little by little I’ve been creating a new identity cobbling together ideas, visions, skills, imagination. To keep me headed in the right direction I keep asking: who’s it for, what’s it for, why does it matter?

I’m not done yet but I’m closer than I was. As the poem goes:

“her entire life led to the

moment when she said,

“This! Is the life I want.”

And she never again

wasted time on anything

that wasn’t that.” [Kai & Fia Sky, Flying Edna ]

Story Prompt: How might you be creating a new identity? Personal? Professional? Something else? Write that story!

Practical Tip: The magic of stories is also in the sharing. If you wish share your story with someone or something.   All that matters is you have a story.

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Music: Mer’s Waltz from Crossing the Waters by Steve Schuch & Night Heron Music

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