First Anniversary!

Today is my first anniversary of life on the road!  It's hard to believe that one year ago today I pulled away from my former home in Raleigh, NC and began this life of a traveler/drifter/vagabond.  I've been called all of those as well as a few other things, like "lady's man" by Walt at Sun n Fun.  My first destination was Twin Lakes campground in Pendleton, SC where my father and siblings camped years ago.  It was a good beginning for this journey.

I didn't write anything in any journal about this day last year, but I did write here on May 2 about the pending departure and the dismantling of the home LaVern and I had made.  I was in Raleigh yesterday to go by the storage building and when I opened it, the tears started to flow.  They come much less often now than then, but they still come.  I still miss her sometimes, and it still hurts a lot when I do.  So, I still pray for the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can and wisdom to know the difference.  After so many years of reciting this, you'd think I would know it by now.  But I still need reminding and still need help from the creator to do them. 

Then on May 31 last year, I posted a picture of the stickers on the back of HOWHEE.  Here are both pics.  Wow! 

Last night I stayed over with Derick and the girls, and he and Lauren were up when I arose and came into the kitchen.  Both of them looked a me and started grinning, so I said "Is it the hair?"  And they both said "yes!"  So, for those of you who need a smile, here's a recent "morning hair 'do".  Enjoy, at my expense!  It was the curly cue on top that made me snap this one!

During a failed fishing expedition the other day to Bent Creek and the French Broad River, I spotted this lonesome goose and was taken by his stature.  Then today at A&J Automotive in Raleigh while getting my new truck checked over, there was a lone goose out back who has taken up with the folks there.  Two lone gooses in as many days, so what's the message for me, if any?  Last year on May 2 a turtle provided a sign for me. 

My desire is to still live one day at a time, enjoying one moment at a time.  And to accept hardship as a pathway to peace.  There are now many more days of peace and happiness than hardship, though I know that there is hardship in my future.  There always is.  The yin and yang.  That's life, and I'm grateful for it!  Namaste!