Life is surprising isn’t it? Just when you feel like perhaps you have reached a blissful point of stasis, an eruption occurs and the path you were walking makes an abrupt u-turn! It always seem to come in that moment when you are feeling settled, comfortable. Maybe verging on too comfortable, maybe starting to settle on the comforts of routine rather than the challenge of living your days fully engaged. Looking back I was happy and content. But not especially challenged or lit up about my day-to-day doings. Stage right: enter giant kick in the pants! My husband out of the blue gets an amazing job offer. One he can’t refuse! One that will take him out of the doldrums of a “good enough” job and into the realm of challenge and intellectual stimulation! So we’re off. We chart a brief course on where we will head and then set out.

To do this we had to leave behind a life we had built, friends we love, a house we had just bought renovated and planned to live in for years. It was sad but some how felt like a giant opening. Like the universe said, “Hey Abby, what do you really want?” In the dark sadness of leaving a life I loved there was a seed planted, one that I can nurture into any dream I want… And the dreams came rolling in!! As I enjoyed some late summer sun on the deck that would soon belong to someone else I realized I had been preparing for this moment. This catalytic moment that would foster  the next stage of my life. The preparation had not been conscious. I had just been doing the work, trying to live my yoga. This has prepared me to see the dissolving of one stage as the opportunity for growth and sustenance of the next stage. Will this current life I have begun in Boston last forever? Nope, nothing remains static. Life is pulsating, morphing, flowing constantly. It too will dissolve to make way for the next cycle: creation, sustenance, dissolution. But I will be prepared.