This site is about the continuing journey of life and how events both random and premeditated shape and influence who we become as we grow older. The story starts in 2016, with our move from Texas to Colorado. In Texas, we were part of the fabric of the community in which we resided. Lifelong friends, family ties, business connections, resulting in a comfortable life and knowing our place in the social order. Plus, all the baggage that comes with living in the same place you were born.

Our “jump” to a new Colorado mountain community presented us with many challenges – both mentally and physically which we attacked head on. We carved out a new life, met new friends, acquired new skills and settled in for the long term. Then as life would have it the fork in the road appeared. Stay in the mountains which we had become to love or move back to Texas. I have subscribed to the philosophy for many years that control is an illusion, and the only thing we actually control is how we react to change.

The change that confronted us — family ties. Parents in their later years that were in decline but refused to admit their diminished mental and physical state. I have observed firsthand over several generations that the last few years of life is a downward spiral racing to the inevitable outcome.

That being said, serendipity presented opportunities that would have been foolish to pass up. So, we “jumped again” back to Texas to start the next decade of our journey towards the final rodeo.

Now, that we have settled, I have come to appreciate the work and care of the previous generations that we are benefiting from. And I take comfort in the fact that the next generation will stand on our shoulders as we are standing on the previous.

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