It was time,
To put my toe in the water.
To watch the ripples form,
To look at a future without the routine I’d come to know.
I had become a dinosaur,
Extinction casting a long shadow on my career.
Dipping my toe,
Could leave pieces of the puzzle undone.
Leaving behind a life,
That seemed filled with urgency.
Just one toe is all it took,
To set new ripples of my life in motion.
The ripples now,
Slower, gentler, different.
Just one toe,
To find a new normal, a new fulfillment.
A new set of ripples to carry my life forward.
Retired from teaching, after 21 years: June 2019
Written: June, 16, 2023
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