Beginning again…

Hear that? That was the sound of my life changing drastically – again.

I’m beginning another season of major change, which in fact began on MLK Day, appropriately, when my husband and I decided to split.  This is divorce number 2 for me, the journey through which will be the subject of a later blog post (probably several).  In the days since i’ve realized how much of me was in hibernation, tucked away because it didn’t match the decor of the lifestyle of the couple we had become. 

This personal transition significantly coincided with the transition of Barack Obama to the presidency, and the major shift of our country into new focus and new hope, even as we face the painful renovation of our economy from its errors and excesses.  I can relate.

And so, it seemed a good time to give blogging another try – attempt four, I think this is.  I think I may be off to a better start this time, hopefully with a little help from some folks with expertise that I connected with at the recent Charlotte BarCamp.  I’m trying to get my social media skills up to par,  and the BarCamp was the kick in the pants I needed, well-timed as it was with my current life change. 

I always have liked new beginnings: learning new things, acquiring skills, meeting people, having experiences I haven’t before.  Maybe it’s a residual effect from my military brat days – the adaptation to changing homes, even countries, on a seemingly random, unanticipated basis.  Military kids learn not to hold on too tightly, and to be prepared to embrace the unknown to come, pressing past the fear.  “Hoping for the best, preparing for the worst” as some say. 

I welcome feedback from others whose journeys intersect mine.  I named my blog “between the boxes” because i’ve realized that a key component of my journey is the continual navigation of that space between the paradigms that people try to confine you to, for the sake of their own security and sense of control.  I understand that need in people, even myself; but I am compelled to rebel against it in all of its forms.  The delusion of control is to me the harbinger of the greatest evils we perpetuate on one another, and I desire to expel it from my life wherever possible.

~ by quantumfluidity on January 25, 2009.