productive conversation with visiting girlfriends from Guam, 2 in fact: time to hone in on the by-forty plan.
reminder that i've been a bouncing rubber ball for the last few decades. girlfriends and mother are some of the many voices that are so good at beckoning me home. i've declared this manifesto in response repeatedly and now it's time for me to put the by-forty plan in writing.
some background, though. my return to the mainland 4 yrs ago was to jump start three things : son's high school, new marriage, and career. now all three are coasting along. every three years my mind-clock gets instantly antsy: anticipating my next big move. the machine in my head never shuts down, I tell you. it's a curse.
my by-forty plans means that if and when at forty, I'm still flailing in random and spontaneous successes and failure, it's time for me to GMABH.
get-my-ass-back-home. by forty, I hope to be doing the job and living in the house I'm supposed to be in living in for the rest of my made-up forever. be it here or in Guam or Ghana...the by-forty plan means i've got 5 more years of repeated trial and error, and lots to write about in between. ask me again in 5 years !
