Well, I’m not going to lie to you, they’re not all going to be spectacular. This past week was a little bit slow. Spent the better part of it recovering from the week 6 canoe trip (i.e. sleep deprivation, muscle pain, gastro-intestinal challenges (shouldn’t drink water straight from the river…)). Don’t get me wrong though, it was still a great week just hanging out at home and in Canmore, with family and with friends, getting some golf in along the way. I may even have drifted off to sleep in the afternoons a couple of times while I was reading the paper.
But I didn’t advance any of my grand self-actualization objectives. And that’s ok too. I think of the past 7 weeks as “phase one” of the sabbatical. Holidays with family while the kids were out of school. Not worrying about anything else. Now comes the harder part, though. Transitioning to “phase two”. Kids will be going back to school this coming week. Leaving me at home. By myself. All day. A whole lot of Jonny Gould time.
Of course I’ve started to think about some of the things I’ll be working on in the coming weeks and months. But I don’t want to get too far ahead of myself here by putting them on paper, just in case I don’t actually get to them. But suffice it to say that I’ve just dusted off the old guitar, and have downloaded a learn to speak Italian app…
Ma va, Jonathan, impararai l’italiano, fantasticio! Va bene!