Sep 17 2007
In the Clouds - The window of Opportunity
I didn’t crop this picture. I didn’t take it intentionally to make the blue sky a square of opportunity in a sea of clouds. I think the birds on the wire of communication led my camera to it, for my eye did not see it. I see irony in it. I worked for GTE for 30 years, the hub of communication by telephone wire in much of Florida. I had windows of opportunity there. Some I chose to take, some I refused because I was still too shy to go for it. Do I regret not taking that particular window? Yes and no. Yes, because I would have loved training others. No, because I was not socially ready, still way too shy and it would have caused more stress than I was prepared to handle. I did help coach people for months on end later and, yes, I loved it.
Leon has an open window of opportunity and he, unlike me those years ago is not afraid to take it. He also was smart enough to think it out: the good, the bad, and the ugly - and the great! It is not time to take the opportunity, but it is not one that will close. So, for this week, I will enjoy all the stolen moments as we work together to get the house ready for sale, as we spend the few resting moments trying to decide which RV will work for ALL the things we want to use it for: we need big, we need little, we need a miracle, grin, to come up with THE RV at THE PRICE… and it is the former more than even the latter that will make it an interesting ride…. I wonder how many “years” after we sell the house we will take to get the RV we are supposed to move into this November? No side bets… at least not so I know…
And if you see a bird conversing with a wire overhead… be sure it is just my wish for a speedy sale of this house at a wonderfully surprisingly high price heading out to the universe, grin. Yeah, all this work is making me punch drunk…
Are you acting on your windows of opportunity? Are you at least seeing them? I sure hope so.
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