The whisper of reinvention
“Come back into your life.” “Come back to yourself.” These were the whispers, I have been hearing recently. For the past two years I have spent more time with my parents than usual. My father moved from illness into diagnosed cancer through to his death. In that time, I moved through my life with heart and purpose for what needed to be done, and I am grateful for the time I had, with my parents. However, now, as the two years remain in my heart, I know I need to move forward; to use the experience fully, to enrich my life. It was only recently I fully realized I had turned 50 within that time. Time had swept my life along. Recently, during many of my lovely women conversations, the question ‘now what?’ would arrive. “What are you going to do now?” They would ask this as if they knew what I did not at the time; I needed to change something, to release, to add or to shift something. The whispered requests becoming louder, now coupled with the curious question – ‘now what?’-