Life.

I took a walk today.

A squirrel looked around the base of a tree at me curiously.

I saw lilacs. Do lilacs grow in the south? I don't remember ever seeing lilacs south of the mason dixon line in the past 7 years that I've lived here.

I had to take off my jacket. Its warmed up here in the past few days. The heat from the sun was warm and comforting on my shoulders. And as I stopped to take a deep breath, I remembered that there is life all around. For almost a year now, my life has been Earth Fare. I would have never quit... and now, well, there is life.

for those of you a little confused at all this, I lost my job on Monday. Well, its actually funny that people say they "lost" their job. For most, its not like you wake up one day and, oops!! where'd my job go? You don't start a search party looking for your job, or retrace your last steps trying to remember where you had laid down that damned job. No, most people just get fired. The funny thing is, I know that I got fired on Monday... but I lost my job a while ago. I have been retracing my steps to figure out where it went. I have enlisted friends and family to help me find it again and make it work again. Getting fired was the easy part. My life has been completely tied up with Earth Fare for about a year now. I've even written about finding a life outside Earth Fare. Did you ever read many posts that told of my success in that? Probably because there was not much success. The problem with putting your life into your work is that when your work is gone, what is left?

Well, I took a walk today.

There is life.