I turn 45 years young this year and there is something about it that just feels different. I used to think 40 was a defining birthday but at 45 it really seems that it is a hinge point in life, that the next chapters are going to be dramatically different. Some of the events of the past year have set the table for a very distinctive change…I have two kids in high school now…I have been married 21 years…I have had 15 different places of employment since graduating college (part time and full time)…I was fired from a job this year and I have to start all over…(more on that in a future post)…I find that I agree with Dave Matthews when he said when he got older he “gave less of a __ about anything, and at the same time more of a __ about everything”. A season of paradox is forming. There is this brief intermission period to think about what’s to come next, to reflect on what’s been done in the first act and hopefully not repeat mistakes but celebrate the victor...