I have an official hard-stop date for this career now; definitely the end of an era. But I still don’t know what that “something” that’s “coming” is. A new career? My prince? Who knows!
I was flipping through O Magazine and came upon a short piece about the upcoming screen version of “Eat, Pray, Love”. It says, “Write down what you want” and I immediately thought, “I want to write for a living – a GOOD living”. LOL at myself for qualifying it. Material Girl!
Anyway, I flipped the page and there it was – my prompt in combination with two of my favorite things. I love the beach and I love to sing. I also love to write. AND Walt Whitman was born on the Loverly Isle of Long, which is where I’m from. Talk about a harmonic convergence 
I used to write poetry and some of it was about the beach where I grew up. A writing teacher in college said that I had a lyrical ear for writing poetry. I think he meant that my poems sounded like song lyrics. I should dig that stuff out and see if there are any clues.
What fun! Disney’s latest animated feature is a comedy about Rapunzel called Tangled, and it’s got my prompt goin’ on in the logo. “Tangled” is about as descriptive as I could get regarding my thoughts about what to do, what to do, whatever SHALL I do (back of hand to forehead, dramatic effect you know). If I had any guts, I’d forget about interviewing and write 15 hours a day until I had something worth printing.
Two years ago, my brother Phil gave me this Starbucks card for my birthday. When I came home, it was to a hurricane, a couple of days before I was scheduled to do so. I spent the afternoon of my arrival putting up storm shutters, fighting the wind and the rain. I didn’t unpack until days later. I put some books I’d received on the shelf and put the cash my mom gave me into the safe.
Don’t know exactly when I remembered the Starbucks card but when I realized I didn’t have it, I assumed I’d left it in my haste somewhere in my apartment at Chez Bro. Back I went for Christmas – no Starbucks card. A mystery, indeed!
So now I am cleaning and purging and reconfiguring stuff. Tonight, I am clearing shelves of accumulated crap so I can reconfigure my desk area in the great room. Lo and behold, here are the two books I got for my birthday that year. Lo and behold, the Starbucks card is stuck in one of the books! AND it is in a sleeve that advises me to "Drink in the sunshine". My keyword – and Starbucks, one of my fave things on the planet. What a combination!
AND – it has fifty bucks on it! Insert happy dance here
I dunno what this signifies, if anything – but I can tell you that every time I respect my space, whatever space it might be, good little discoveries like this happen.
So… Which space should I respect next? 
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