The summer hiatus is coming to an end and I now find myself just over half way through the first year of my third act. I once heard a quote from one of the first Apollo astronauts who said, “Without events to mark it, there is no such thing as time”. I think what he means is that as we move along in our lives, it is important to pause along the way and see what kind of progress is being made. Otherwise how will we even know we are in time? What are we experiencing? How are we growing? How are we doing as compared to what we were hoping for? Without such reflection we tend to drift along, hoping to accomplish the things that we set out to do and often, not really getting that far. Perhaps a paraphrase of this would be: “If we do not set any goals, we never know if we are getting somewhere”.

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