My goals for Chapter 14 are to write, travel and do my crafts. I will continue to write, for myself, and for any one who wishes to read my words. But that is expanding. I will continue this blog for as long as Chapter 14 exists, but I am resuscitating the Miswords blog starting next week. It is my play on words, especially idioms. cliches and phrases. And I hope it helps the people from foreign lands to understand our use of words and how we use them in the different parts of our country. If you would like to check that out go to miswordsdotcom.wordpress.com. I will be writing that blog on Tuesdays and Fridays. I will continue to write this blog on Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. On this blog you will see my travels, crafts and some writing information until I have my own web page, then I will start posting shorts or parts of shorts on the web page, but for now, I gotta figure out how to make the web page.
Along with the blogs, I am in the process of preparing for my first INDIE book of shorts. I am toying with the first novel, or rather the first in a series of novels. I am also in the process of gathering information on another collection of short stories, but these will be based on other people's experiences. Throw in a couple of stories about the ancestry I am researching, and you can get an idea about how my life is veering. And I have not given up on the idea of being a personal historian. But that is in the idea stage, though.
Travel is becoming a huge part of my life. I am learning how to travel on the cheap, and will give you my tips along the way, as well as any ideas about traveling. Here is one. Since luggage can no longer be locked at the airports, I read somewhere to put a paper clip on the zipper part of the luggage. I did, and guess what, the people at the airport cut off the steel pulley to close the zipper instead of the paper clip. So...I figured instead of the paper clip, just use one of those twistees from the bread wrapper. It works.
I know for sure I will never spend a lot of money on luggage -- it is ruined the first time out, so I look for bright colors and it being light weight.
And pulleys, I want pulleys. It looks like I am going to have to go to the handware or craft store and buy a lanyard clip.
I want to see the world, travel to all of our 50 states (I have been to 31 of them), and do as much as I can on the cheap. I am not wealthy, so it has to be on the cheap. There is volunteering, like I covered before, and if I wanted to stay somewhere for a year, I could teach English abroad. I doubt much if I will stay in a hostel, but you never know. I do know I will never stay in a 5 star hotel. There is no way I would spend a lot of money for a bed for a night's sleep. So, somewhere in between. House swapping is not out of the question, but I would have to move to do that. I don't think this active adult community allows that. Rules! Bah - humbug...
As I travel, I need to learn how to write while traveling -- that is, the blog and web page writing.
Crafting. I can tell you that already I am tiring of ceramics. I have a list of items I want to paint, but as the weeks go on, my list shortens as I cross off items instead of completing them. I just need more time for the writing. I will continue with the stain glass and fused glass, but at a certain point, what else do you do? But, for now they are in my life.
And friends and family -- I want to keep them around forever. New friends are hard to keep because they don't really know me and they want me to stay in one spot. It ain'tta gonna happen. I don't want to put down roots, stay in one spot. Not now, maybe not ever. But, I do need a home base, where I can store my clothes and a good bed, somewhere to wash my clothes and sort out what I need to take to the next place. For me, that is going to be San Diego. Soon.
Heraclitus said in 535 B.C. that "There is nothing more constant than change", and he was so correct to say that. I know the world around me is changing at an alarming speed. And my world...well, it is changing, also, but not as speedy as our world today. And you know what, I want that change, I embrace that change, I look forward to that change. I want to be a part of it. I am a part of it because I am bound determined not to stay in one spot, whether physically or mentally or both.
And on that note, I gotta go....
Until next week...have a great weekend...
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