My friend Barbara Marge raises chickens for food. She has done it for several years. It is something I could not do. I get too attached. I would name them all and soon I would be overrun by chickens and then their families. :) Sigh.... it is good to know ones limits.
But back to the chicken raising. We talked this past weekend and she had been butchering chickens with her neighbors. I was shocked. Not about the butchering because that is the end result of raising them for food.
What shocked me was that we had only talked about the chickens twice during the time she had them. You see the first year we talked about them every day. It was raising chicken lessons every night when we talked. The feed, the fencing...on and on.
Then this year only twice. I said that felt strange. She responded that she knew what she was doing now and there was no need to work through it all. She just had to do what she knew to do.
We decided that was a lot like most things in life. When you start something new you usually need to talk about it with folks. You explore it. You look for answers. You may talk nonstop as you sort through it trying to figure it out. You may start and stop until you finally get it. And when you do get it...you look back and sometimes don't even remember all the steps it took to get there.
But the steps were there and that's a good thing to remember the next time you embark on a new adventure in life. The stops and starts. And all the things that happen in the middle.
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