Stratispho, I think you, Matt and myself take our families into account in everything
we do. I certainly read that into your posts although didn't know you had 3 kids until now.
Any solution that wasn't sustainable wouldn't be fair to them, of course. And, my idea is
not to just live, but, to thrive and for my family to thrive, not that I know exactly how to pull that off, right now.
When I was trying to figure how the heck I could get to the June Expo, 16 days ago, I had
to reverse my thinking to "What if it wasn't impossible?" Asking myself that
question temporarily removed the complexity of my family situation as a block to
coming up little steps that were possible. We have a lady that takes care of
my mother on Sundays that we've known for three years. When my wife realized
how important it was to me she agreed to come home early from work for a few days
to cover. We also negotiated a rate with my mom's caregiver to fill in a few cracks
during my 4-day absence.
As I said, I don't know how all of this is going to work, yet, but maybe its just
a series of these small little miracles, above, strung together.
I also have BraveHeart playing in my head asking, "What will you do without
freedom?", except its my responsibility to answer that question for my family. And,
in a way, I feel I forfeit the right to bitch, later, if I'm not at least trying to do everything
I can, now. For me, there's also an element of making up for lost time. As in my first post, below,
I thought the locational aspects of freedom were solved, a while ago, and was wrong about that.
That's my story, anyway. . .
Terence
