94 - BIG DECISION

This has been my last week in Manzanillo, Mexico, this winter.  

I go to Collingwood this afternoon through my feared Pearson Airport where a lovely man whom I hired will take me to my daughter’s home in Creemore for the two days before I take possession of the Airbnb I rented on Georgian Bay on the outskirts of Collingwood.  

I don’t want to go back!   

I would be delighted to stay another month in my lovely villa but Mexico only allows visitors to stay 180 days.  My time is up.

Monday, the day I return to Canada, is Election Day.  One I have been unable to vote in, as I explained last week.  I’ll say no more on that until next Sunday, when all Canadians will then know who their Prime Minister is for the next four years. 

I received notice 2 weeks ago from the Website I use, that I need to pay an annual fee or lose my domain name and my website.  There are 2 weeks left to decide what I’m going to do.  

I am still in decision mode, but am leaning toward letting the website go. It’s been an incredible journey and I’ve loved writing each week but I feel I’ve said everything about being a nomad that I have to say. 

Life over the coming six months will be a much quieter time, with fewer people in my life to interact with, resulting is even less to say.  Human interaction helps create energy and ideas – I anticipate that will be lessened over the next 6 months.  Would I be able to find interesting ideas to write about, or would my blog become more of a diary that I strive it not to be.  This is my dilemma!

My goal for my time in Collingwood is to focus on my memoirs.  Writing this blog for the past 2-1/2 years has helped hone my writing skills for this major project.  

The memoirs will only have me as the main character that runs through the book holding its bits and pieces together in some semblance of order.  I don’t want the book to be about me as much as about the times I experienced as my life progressed on its journey to where I am today, in my 90’s. 

It will be about how the times affected me.  It will tell some interesting, some unusual, things about those times that the reader may not be aware of, or perhaps had forgotten, hoping to make it a story not only my children and grandchildren will want to read, but others as well.    I warned my family that they will get a copy of the abridged version, Amazon will have the unabridged version.  Of course, that was only meant to titillate them.

It will have humour and pathos, as I describe how my life continued to be chiseled to become who I am today. 

As I say “hasta Noviembre” to my Mexican friends and “I’m back” to my Canadian friends and family this week, I will continue to deliberate on the future, or lack of one, of this blog. 

Talk to you next week!!