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PONDERING CORE ESSENCE
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A trip to Texas, a promotion at work, a little bit of fishing and some other new developments all made August 2019 pretty interesting (to me!) I'd never had cause to visit Texas before, but a conference for work took me there for the first week of August. It was hot enough that for a couple of multi-day stretches, I didn't leave the hotel! I had everything I needed there (lodging, choice of food venues and plenty of opportunities to simply watch people; the Mary Kay convention was going on!) When I did venture out, I found pleasant enough conditions. I enjoyed a great Tex-Mex dinner in downtown Dallas, and attended a fun Texas Rangers ballgame. The best part of this trip, though, was that A joined me. We were able to share it all, together, and in a pretty relaxed manner, too. Just before the trip, I was offered a promotion at work. That hasn't happened a whole lot. It's a position that I ably filled last year, and so it is familiar and a natural progression. But most satisfactorily, I enjoyed leading this small group of coworkers on our admittedly esoteric journey. I look forward to continued successes with this team! I've gotten to fish, but just a bit; deep-cranking largemouths has become my go-to summer game here in Michigan. There are plenty of smallies available, too, but I just haven't pulled together the time or energy to make the necessary drive to where they live. But, I love having my Duckett Ghost in hand, searching bottom and structure for just the right amount of contact to tell me that I am in the proper zone and to excite the bass that reside there. So, more local access to green bass has been totally acceptable to me during the summer heat. Finally, A just announced her retirement from her employer of over 30 years. Why not? There's a potentially better opportunity waiting for her in Massachusetts. She's leaving Michigan on August 30, so that should be in this update, right? For the purposes of symmetry, I will add that we embarked on our Michigan journey together on September 1, 1985. I'll simply round it off and say that we enjoyed a full 34 years, together, in Michigan. I'll be working on developing the right opportunity for myself before I join her. I don't want her hogging all the stripers and surfcasting adventures! Plus, my kids are there! There's a lot of upside to moving back "home" to New England. I just need to figure out how to approximate my current life here. I find that a bit daunting, to be honest. Pondering the questions of core essence and finding meaning in unexpected ways
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