The city has almost finished the sewer/road project in front of my house. Today, they put down the first of two layers of asphalt. Tomorrow... they finish.
For Fathers' Day, I bought myself two star jasmine plants. One thing led to another, and now, many weeks later, I have a new fenced-in patio with a star jasmine. I also have a new trellis by my back door with the second star jasmine attached. The plants signify the end of that project. Completed: today!
Several weeks ago I bought an e-book: The Gabriel Method -- The Revolutionary Diet-Free Way to Totally Transform Your Body. I finished it yesterday, including the appendix. The book is done and the transformation has begun: I'm eating much better!
Ahhh... Life is a journey, and sign-posts get passed. Some times things get finished. I savor those moments. I've taken a lesson from the theater industry. When a production closes, they have a cast party. They celebrate the finish. They relax. They party.
Then... because life is a journey... the next adventure begins.
I've never been much of a personal historian. Until five years ago, I rarely took pictures. Sometimes I'd click my ears and blink: "Remember this Don." Now I have a camera and a blog. On-line scrap-booking? Sharing my milestones in photographs and paragraphs?
Yes. Party on!
Life is a Journey. :)
ReplyDeleteIt amazes me how sometimes the transition between "project complete" and "new project" is a small or natural, and sometimes it's stark, and changes everything.
There is no "One-size-fits-all" project/journey/adventure, is there?
Then again... that might just be the best part of all.
@Chase: I agree with your comment re: transitions. Maybe that's why there are many English words: commencement, graduation, moving on, completion, finish, the end, finals, water-shed moment, climax, show-stopper, etc.
ReplyDeleteSoon, you'll be writing about project completion, moving on, good-byes, and mile-stones. Actually, you've already begun. ;-)
Then... the journey continues...
One-size-doesn't fit all... "Then again... that might just be the best part of all." It must might be.
I think it is good to mark and celebrate each milestone completed. I feel like I'm always "in process" with some of the "one of these days I'll finish" projects that are bouncing around in my head :) I'm enjoying the journey anyway.
ReplyDeleteyou're much better at project finishing than i am.
ReplyDeletei could list about 20 pages worth of incomplete projects i have.
around 2 complete ones......
@septembermom: As a busy mom, you're completing projects, even dozens a day. Maybe not the wish-I-could-find-time-and-money-to type of projects, but meals, menus, and the general madness of being the home-maker adds up to finished projects galore! (Unfortunately, those completed projects, like laundry, tend to stay completed for about five minutes.)
ReplyDelete@Pieces: Well... if you complete two more... you'll double your productivity. There's no way I can double mine! (Been to India yet?)