Ahoy! What an adventure it’s been since setting sail on a 12 month challenge to think and write about Rosslyn every day. Every single day. No skips. No excuses. No delays. And, as of today, it’s been 22 months. That’s 183% of my original goal on August 1, 2022. Today I’d like to commemorate this 22 month milestone with a commitment to two more months of daily deep-dives into my relationship with our home and a promise to announce big news on August 1, 2024.
First let’s revisit the mission as I described it six months in.
Yesterday was a meaningful midpoint milestone in my quest to post a Rosslyn update every day without fail… One new installment every 24-hours without fail. Rhapsodizing Rosslyn, celebrating our team’s accomplishments, soapboxing historic rehab and adaptive reuse, showcasing seasonality snapshots and historic Essex memorabilia, weaving in some hyperlocal haiku and place-based poetry, illuminating the mercurial transition / transformation we’re currently navigating, and sharing boathouse and icehouse updates, intriguing artifacts, and wildlife observations.
(Source: Midpoint Milestone: 6 Months Down, 6 Months to Go)
Today’s 22 month milestone IS NOT an opportunity to inventory my odyssey so far, nor is it a chance to gloat. (But… in just two months it’ll have been 2 years… Wow!)
Today’s 22 month milestone IS an opportunity to thank you for joining me on this curious quest. I’m profoundly grateful for your curiosity and encouragement. I’ve been hesitant, sometimes guarded about my motivations and even my overarching aspiration because it’s proven more difficult to understand and to articulate my quest than I’d anticipated at the outset. But you have been patient, and you have pushed me forward. You have cultivated my slowly germinating comfort with risk and conviction. You have endured my experiments and weathered my course changes. You have gently but resolutely redirected and refocused me. And more recently you’ve begun curtailing my meandering meditation in order catalyze its conclusion. Enough dithering. Enough deliberation. It’s time for decisions. Thank you.
Today’s 22 month milestone IS an opportunity to recommit. To clarity. To conclusion. I’m prone to overthinking and inaction as Susan is quick to point out. She claims to be “the closer”. I’m “the opener”, the brainstormer, the broad strokes dreamer, the what-iffer, and the crazy ideas guy. A marriage of decision and indecision, she might say. Well, with 2 months to go before the 2 year anniversary of this introspective and retrospective inquiry, I’m committing to finish the task I set out upon. True I’ll have surpassed my timeline. But at 200%, that’s still progress from the 400% overshoot of our original Rosslyn rehab timeline! So, maybe we can call that progress?
What do you think?