One of Those Phases

Photo taken March 29, 2019 in Beacon Hill Park, Victoria, BC

Upsetting the balance of

any of life’s ‘phases’

rocks our worlds with 

sticks and stones or with

bright balloons and music

while we set our course in

our own uncharted waters.

Upsetting the balance of

established, yet faded, 

patterns stirs up debris scattered & stacked in closets and drawers to be waded through ~ or not ~

while we pay our bills 

do the laundry and get groceries.

Upsetting the balance of life

in the spirit of transition?

Easier to navigate with

strength, skills and beliefs 

learned from sometimes tiresome lessons

throughout life’s growing seasons.

Retirement ~ just one of those phases.

“A transition period is a period between two transition periods.”

~ George Stigler, (1911 to 1991American economist, 

1982 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences