Do you want to dance?

Tom is back on his shift at his other job :-) so I've been going since 5am. It's such a beautiful day so we of course went to the beach and after Junior had woken everyone up barking over his toy we went home again. I couldn't get settled or stuck into anything so I decided to come up to the shop. It's a normal quiet Sunday morning and as I mooch about the shop I can't quite believe that in a few months we won't be here anymore. Change is not an alien thing to me, I would move jobs or move countries every 18 months to 2 years and not think twice about it, but for the first time change feels odd to me when all I crave to be is settled. It's amazing to think about what we've achieved. It sometimes seems like yesterday we were ripping out the old counter from the ESB and then sometimes it feels like it was years ago. 

People often ask me if it was hard moving over and I would always say to them the shop was my life line. It rescued my at a time when I was struggling with all the changes and trying to redefine myself. When something has that much value to you it's hard to say goodbye but I suppose to spend too much time dwelling on it would just be tilting at windmills. 

In my early twenties a life changing event happened and I was sent an email by my friend titled 'Every woman….'. Over the years a few of these phrases have stuck with me and one of those is 'sometimes spends so long looking at the closed door that they don't see the one that's opened up'. I can say for sure that I will never be accused of staring at closed doors, if anything it's that I don't take enough time to let the door close. 

So today I will take a little bit of time to reflect on this closing chapter of my life before I start to make plans of moves and changes and all that. And as I sit in my workshop looking over to the sea I can think of many appropriate sayings - the calm before the storm, the sea of change, plenty of fish in the sea - but mostly all I can thing about is how blessed I am to have blown in here. The kind words of support and the offers of help will make light work of the move and I'm already thinking about the party. 

And I will close with a quote from Alan Watts…. ' The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it. move with it, and join the dance.'

So I hope you'll join us for a dance and if you want to be the first to know where we are moving to sign up for our newsletter on the website www.lunasa.co