Current No. 20 of 31 · the second half of life

The Well-Kept House

Strong in Ease: being at home in my body and my days
Growing in Ahead: leaning toward what comes next

The Well-Kept House, an original photograph by John G. Geier III

Your good walking shoes sit by the door, laced and ready, and every day you take them only as far as the end of the block. You take good care of yourself and your days. Your life is in good order.

You will recognize this

You turn at the same corner. You walk the grocery aisles in the same order. Friday is the same restaurant, the same seat, the same meal. Pleasant. Steady. You could describe next Tuesday in detail today.

Your days run on time: up at the same hour, the walk at the same hour, the same loop and the same bench. You spent decades keeping other people's lives running, and you have earned a stretch where little is asked. Rest, energy, a body kept as a good place to live: those are what a new chapter runs on.

This season

Routine was a lifeline: it got children to school, bills paid, a household through hard years. Now the routine is yours, and it is comfortable. Nothing is wrong. This season asks only whether the routine still serves you, or has quietly become the whole of your life.

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