the freedom to move forward

I am the newest Regional Director of Shelter Outreach for Pethealth, Inc.  I'll provide customer support to current clients - animal shelters and rescues - in Indiana, Kentucky, Arkansas, and Missouri, and will bring new shelters and rescues on board.

Pethealth, Inc offers a suite of products for the animal welfare field, including microchips, pet insurance, and shelter management software (PetPoint). As Shelter Manager at the Kentucky Humane Society, I got to know the products, and the company, and I knew that if I left KHS, I wanted to work for Pethealth, Inc.

So, that's what I'm going to do.

And the Kentucky Humane Society - my former employer - will now be one of my clients.

This Uncertain Summer is officially over.

The freedom to move forward to new opportunities and to produce results comes from living in the present not the past - Brian Koslow



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'til you yourself are a sail

Last month I mentioned that I'd been feeling drawn to the sea, and wondered what I was really trying to say to myself with that feeling. Yesterday, all at once, I figured it out.

When I lost my job, I abruptly found myself in cast out into completely unfamiliar territory, not knowing where I was going, or what lay ahead. I couldn't stay, so I just had to go. If I was going to save myself, I had to take that leap of faith, and leave the shore.

I spent a good deal of time out on open waters. Uncharted waters. There was no going back, and the far shore was nowhere in sight. No wonder the idea of the sea felt so familiar to me: I've spent an entire season and then some trying to find the other shore.

I'm almost there. I wonder how long it will take me to get my land legs back?

And then today I received this in the mail:

The secret of seeing is to sail on solar wind. 

Hone and spread your spirit, 'til you yourself are a sail, 

whetted, translucent, 

broadside to the merest puff.

 - Annie Dillard

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look out the streaked window with complacency

Hello, September. I'm so glad you're here, and with you, the onset of autumn.  This Uncertain Summer is all but over. Next week I fly to Canada, then Chicago, for training at my new job. Tomorrow I'll be FIFTY. So  - yeah - we're turning the corner...

After months and days of hellish heat, autumn blew in a few nights ago on the back of a storm, and has settled in to stay awhile. Daytime temps are cool, nights are downright chilly. It's been raining on and off since Sunday, and I couldn't be happier about it.

Bring on the cozy...

 

The best kind of rain, of course, is a cozy rain.  This is the kind the anonymous medieval poet makes me remember, the rain that falls on a day when you'd just as soon stay in bed a little longer, write letters or read a good book by the fire, take early tea with hot scones and jam and look out the streaked window with complacency.          ~Susan Allen Toth,  England For All Seasons

 
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right on time

This Uncertain Summer is shaping right up. I still feel like I am NOT in control of the situation(s), that I am being washed along like a boat on the water, but I am (mostly) staying positive, trusting the tide, and going with the flow. And I think it's working...

 I am not afraid of storms for I am learning to sail my ship.

-Louisa May Alcott

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