The task that has hit the top of my list is job-hunting. I’ve been avoiding thinking about it for a while – but needs must.

Anyway, I’ve been thinking about it today and this may be a good time to go back to my original profession of music teaching (two of my instruments, piano and clarinet). It’s reasonably well paying, and flexible, the latter of which is a strong need in my life.

I did think about it a few years ago, and tried, but there were too many other constraints to have more than a couple of pupils. I was quite sad to give up the work 18 years ago, but having felt very strongly that the changes that were taking place in my life were the right ones; I went with the flow of whatever those changes bought. However, I always found myself doing some kind of music, no matter where I was, and having started in a very small way to get back into that kind of teaching again, I found myself enjoying it in a way I’d not anticipated!

The strands that are beginning to weave themselves together as my life here mostly seem to be musically based. And I’m doing things I’ve not done for twenty years or so, including singing in the church choir!!

Yet, it doesn’t seem like going backwards or a retrograde step. It seems more like having gone around in a huge circle, and come back to myself properly, so I can move forwards in the way I’m meant to. (There’s a poem that can express that better than I can, but I can’t remember it!)