{"id":1890,"date":"2021-12-29T09:11:37","date_gmt":"2021-12-29T16:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schierlyliving.com\/?p=1890"},"modified":"2021-12-30T15:45:59","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T22:45:59","slug":"end-of-another-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/schierlyliving.com\/?p=1890","title":{"rendered":"End of Another Year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

December 2021 is far different, in far many ways, than was December 2020. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A year ago I was mired in deep snow, depending upon Moon Bug to get on or off this mountain. Today, the Jeep sits in the driveway, the world the color of my dog; mostly gold with patches of white. The old boy is hard to see at dusk and dawn as such. Addled as he is, he never goes out alone anymore. I once lost a dog to a mountain lion, a similarly abled dog, and I believe they sense such shifts in animal stability. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A year ago I was sitting here, deep in both snow and internal conflict. Fully employed for thirteen years in a job that gave me stomach aches. Still gives me stomach aches when I discuss it in consulting interviews. I sat here on someone else’s furniture, sleeping in someone else’s bed, sort of sliding into an existence as a place to be, but abstracted from being my own. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I am nesting this year. With help from a friend there are now twenty five plants in here with me. There is furniture, wall hangings, art work, arrangements, a friend’s gong, all of my choosing. There is a home here now, my home, shaped, molded, and nestled into the winter experience I wish to experience, not just a place to be. A place to think and plan just what might come next year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

May your year end well for you. May you map out what you wish for the next year. May you be so lucky to experience something that requires no map; you only need a map if you are lost or do not know where you are going, after all. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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December 2021 is far different, in far many ways, than was December 2020. A year ago I was mired in deep snow, depending upon Moon Bug to get on or off this mountain. Today, the Jeep sits in the driveway, the world the color of my dog; mostly gold with patches of white. The old … <\/p>\n

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