Sep

20

Who Am I?

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As I begin this blog, I am one year and two months from turning 60 years old, and feeling the best I’ve ever felt in my life.  I’ve never been very good at journaling; I am more into using photographs with brief explanations to document my thoughts and experiences, but I’ve decided to begin a blog to try to better explain the things I’m feeling and learning about life and myself.

A few years back, some of my nurse friends and I started a hiking group we call “The Healing Hikers.”   We’re all RNs in our 50′s and 60′s, and our motto runs along the lines of “healing ourselves as we help heal others.”   I see the name Healing Hiker as a perfect metaphor for my walk through this life, healing myself and, I hope, helping others along the way.

My husband, Steve, and I have experienced some profound changes in our individual lives and in our relationship in the past couple of years, and I want to write about some of the most transformative of those changes, hoping readers may be as inspired as we have been.

I’ll be talking much more about the incredible adventures of the Healing Hikers, as well as health, diet (mostly vegetarian, often raw), Zen thinking, family, friends, love, nature: all the things that have helped me thrive in new ways every day of my life.

I think we were meant to thrive, don’t you?