Some Better News

Tonight we found out our new address. "New" in that kind of way that actually says "a few months off in the future". It's still hard-to-stand-myself really exciting.

A little less than three months from now, we'll be moving into a Civil War-era home in Cloverdale, Michigan. The house will actually be all ours - not planning on living with anyone else again for a good long time. It is plenty large enough for everything we want to do with rooms to spare for guests - like all the family and friends we've not seen this year. And that's not all.

Our amazing friends (and future landlords) around the corner have offered to give us some help starting some of the enterprises we've been talking about doing for a couple of years now. They have space if we want to build a greenhouse and are offering the use of their wood shop to me. And that's not all either...

It's on a lake...which means I might get to build that boat I've had the plans for since 2003.

There's still so much more than this short blurb I've written above, but I want to close this post with a quote that I found in a Holistic Management book. It describes well, how it seems like we are taken care of and provided for in so many unexplained ways by the universe and by people who simply want for us to experience joy.

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is only one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too.

All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way.

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.

Johan Wolfgang von Goethe