Revisiting

Milton Lake

I'm spending a few weeks in my hometown and

 today I visited a place where I made a decision

that changed the course of my life.

Three months away from our wedding date, Rob

 was offered a new job.  We didn't know where we

would get transfered to, we just knew it wouldn't

 be here.  We had to make a decision rather quickly

and went to Milton Lake, a place where we often

went to watch the swans and birds, and discussed

the pros and cons of this move.  We have always

been planners and this seemed like the perfect

time to make a life-changing move.

I've never been a 'townie".  I see people who have

lived in the same town and have the same friends

that they have had since high school and every

weekend they go to the same bars and have the

same conversations and frankly that leaves me cold.

Though I love to come home and reconnect with my

old friends I really needed to move on and broaden my

horizons.  And it was a great decision, we have fashioned

 a life that is filled with the homey, happy life that we

have in the American Midwest, coupled with an

everchanging life of adventure around the world. 

Forget drabness.  Anything but drabness!

~ John Graham