I was just five miles from Michigan Matt twice in the last two weeks as I flew from Newark to Portland, Oregon. We tracked over Erie, PA, Lake Erie, Canada, Lake Michigan and Michigan as I watched. It was truly beautiful.
Have you kept track of Taylor Foreman? He and his fiancé have moved to Louisiana. I’m in eastern Pennsylvania after a life lived mostly overseas. Living in major cities and / or their suburbs and trying to console yourself from that dispiriting reality with a summer vacation in Europe is not an obviously a winning life strategy.
Great transformations always start with events that have an element of compulsion. Jacob went on the journey where he was renamed Israel because of a deadly quarrel with his brother and the need to find a wife.
I agree with Rick that’s it’s not about the “or” it’s about the “and”. The Bible can be a mythic road map and a source of divine guidance. Seeing this new life phase in both mythic and providential terms may be the best source of motivation and resilience and measured risk taking that will be required by the challenges and opportunities presented by the return of you and your family to Michigan.
Please continue to keep us updated! Very best wishes
Oh, we welcome you back to the Midwest with cheers, Matt. I look forward to following your new adventure. And delighted (and not surprised) that Avery will be a Spartan.
Best wishes that the move flows smoothly, and that it is brimming with the serendipity you seek.
You've got a pretty darn good start on your run toward the mystical by following your heart and instincts on where to live. Who knows what adventure awaits with this renewal. And your point about whether the Bible is literal or not is so well offered. Even if it were, or is, literal, without humans to put its principles into practice, it remains a myth. (And great job on the house! Hope it flies off the shelf.)
You are a lucky man to be able to say that you have a "home state". Few people can make that statement that as they try to find just the right place to live a good life.
And I know too many people who think that they will find it in Portugal or Ireland knowing next to nothing about either place.
Like you, I find later in life a pull Northward; back to Connecticut from Florida. But I haven't made the bold move yet.
And when I go back and forth between the two, Yacht Rock, particularly Steely Dan, is an important element of my stay-awake strategy.
I was just five miles from Michigan Matt twice in the last two weeks as I flew from Newark to Portland, Oregon. We tracked over Erie, PA, Lake Erie, Canada, Lake Michigan and Michigan as I watched. It was truly beautiful.
Have you kept track of Taylor Foreman? He and his fiancé have moved to Louisiana. I’m in eastern Pennsylvania after a life lived mostly overseas. Living in major cities and / or their suburbs and trying to console yourself from that dispiriting reality with a summer vacation in Europe is not an obviously a winning life strategy.
Great transformations always start with events that have an element of compulsion. Jacob went on the journey where he was renamed Israel because of a deadly quarrel with his brother and the need to find a wife.
I agree with Rick that’s it’s not about the “or” it’s about the “and”. The Bible can be a mythic road map and a source of divine guidance. Seeing this new life phase in both mythic and providential terms may be the best source of motivation and resilience and measured risk taking that will be required by the challenges and opportunities presented by the return of you and your family to Michigan.
Please continue to keep us updated! Very best wishes
Thank you Chris. Brilliant, thoughtful, and caring words from you as always. Much appreciated.
Hey Matt! Good to see this update. Got a good feeling about this move for you and your family. Best of luck on selling the house and the move.
Thank you Matt! I have a good feeling, also (mostly 😅).
Oh, we welcome you back to the Midwest with cheers, Matt. I look forward to following your new adventure. And delighted (and not surprised) that Avery will be a Spartan.
Best wishes that the move flows smoothly, and that it is brimming with the serendipity you seek.
Thanks Terri! Nice to have your esteemed company in the Midwest. :)
You've got a pretty darn good start on your run toward the mystical by following your heart and instincts on where to live. Who knows what adventure awaits with this renewal. And your point about whether the Bible is literal or not is so well offered. Even if it were, or is, literal, without humans to put its principles into practice, it remains a myth. (And great job on the house! Hope it flies off the shelf.)
Missed your comments, my friend! Hope all is well.
: ) better than well.
You are a lucky man to be able to say that you have a "home state". Few people can make that statement that as they try to find just the right place to live a good life.
And I know too many people who think that they will find it in Portugal or Ireland knowing next to nothing about either place.
Like you, I find later in life a pull Northward; back to Connecticut from Florida. But I haven't made the bold move yet.
And when I go back and forth between the two, Yacht Rock, particularly Steely Dan, is an important element of my stay-awake strategy.
You can never go wrong with Steely Dan!
Good luck on your next chapter, Matt. Rooting for you always.
Welcome back to the Mitten!
Thanks Matt!
…you a tigers or a marlins guy?…what’s on the record player these days?…
Tigers, who are in complete meltdown now. 😂
And I’ve got that yacht rock spinning as always! Been on quite a country kick lately also. Lots of good stuff there I’ve ignored.
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Back atcha. 💚
As sorry as we are to see you all go, we are so excited for all of you for this next chapter.