Kontan.

We are down to the final weeks of ’09 with Christmas a week away.  My girls are excited, but still have a few days left of school.  I am finished for the year and will return to the teaching stage in early January.  Christmas shopping is not complete, but I look forward to two days without the girls here so I can finish up and wrap the remainder.  It will be nice to have a little quiet time, but I do have a lot to think about.  I am at a professional crossroads and decisions will have to be made in a rather expedient manner.  Right now the situation requires patience.  I refuse to move forward until I am certain of my options.  So much to think about.  Do I pursue the path that I feel would be most satisfying to me, economically beneficial, and an exciting change…or do I stay the comfortable course.  I don’t know. It is my decision, but my decision does not impact only me.  My favorite poem, and the story of my life…

The Road Not Taken

TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth; 5

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same, 10

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back. 15

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference. 20

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