I’ve been out of town on business all week.  The driving, the tough decisions our management team at work is faced with, and being away from home all made for one of the more stressful weeks of my life.  I did, however, manage to get together for dinner on two different nights this week with friends from where Gail and I used to live — friends I hadn’t seen for many months prior to this week.  Having them to converse and share with helped me stay grounded, and helped provide an outlet for the huge amount of work-related stress I’m feeling.  Thank goodness for friends.

This helps me realize — and look forward to — how much healthier it will be for me to live in a community where there will be constant interaction with my friends and neighbors … where that stress-relief valve will be present on a daily basis without requiring extraordinary efforts to make it happen.  I can’t wait!

We have a Wolf Creek Commons general meeting this morning and it makes me smile just thinking of getting together with the WCC folks that I’ve built relationships with over the past 9 months.  That’s the kind of smile I’d live to wake up with every morning!

Now if we can just recruit more like-minded people to join our community so it can continue to push forward towards becoming reality…