Does anyone else feel this way?
I think I have lived three or four separate lives. They seem distinct and almost completely separate. Different people, friends, families, places and lifestyles.
My first was childhood through college. Irresponsibility, sports, drug experimentation, belief system questioning, leaving home for good.
Second was first family, Pacific Northwest, struggle to find professional niche, wonderful friends and social gatherings, two children, beginning to accumulate things, love and take advantage of mountains, rivers and begin road cycling. Wife decides she wants something else.
Third is another marriage, three children, technology leveraging, working hard, leaving things and blundering into familial separation, completely abandoning the notion of any kind of god.
I am still in the third life maybe moving to the fourth – no car. I own some clothes, books, three bicycles, bicycle trailer, digital camera, camping equipment, back-country cross-country skis, a used surfboard, bodyboard, wetsuit and two computers; that’s it. I like things that are small, efficient and do the job. However counter-intuitive, I leverage technology to live as simple a life as possible.
In 2003 I was told I would be dead in a year without an aortic valve replacement. Every day is one I was not supposed to have and I know it. Living at the beach for first time in my life and it is wonderful, but I often miss Oregon and, time allowing, will probably wrap things up in Bend.
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