Birthday Musings

[bjarvis]

Today sometime in mid-morning, I turned 39, my last scheduled stop before cruising into 40.



At this point in my life, I'm almost precisely twice my age when I left the family farm in northern Ontario to strike out on my own.

Among other milestones, it's been:

• 20 years since graduating from New Liskeard Secondary School (grade 13, of course, when it existed);
  
• 18 years since crashing & burning at the University of Waterloo;
  
• 16 years since coming out of the closet;
  
• 15 years since starting to work for the University of Toronto;
  
• 14 years since purchasing my first house (jointly with my ex, John);
  
• 14 years since assisting the founding of Singing Out! The Lesbian & Gay Chorus of Toronto;
  
• a bit more than ten years since I met Kent (and through him big sis paigemom);
  
• a bit less than ten years since I moved to the US;
  
• five years since I finally finished my BSc at the University of Maryland;
  
• three years since I started my MSc at U of M, almost a year since I finished it;
  
• 20 months since I picked up a microphone (to attempt) to call a square dance;
  
• 6 months since I was absorbed into the LiveJournal borg collective.
  

My life currently bears no resemblance whatsoever to what I had envisioned when I boarded a south-bound train in 1986. I'm a little disappointed in myself that certain goals haven't been met yet but others have been far exceeded and I've discovered paths & options which couldn't have anticipated so I'm giving myself a passing grade for things accomplished thus far. Shattered dreams can sometimes make beautiful kaleidoscopes.



There's still so much to do in the next 39 years... I'd better get busy.

Comments

[ubel-josh.livejournal.com]

Hey Happy Birthday from me and Skip!