Your family home holds precious memories, but as your children grow up and move on to establish their own lives both near and far the question; what next? Inevitably comes up.
Downsizing can evoked negative feelings, but one can think of the change differently.
In her book Composing A Life, Mary Catherine Bateson reflects on how 5 of her friends went about remolding their lives in their 50’s, 60’s and 70’s. She likens the process to (amongst other things) the weaving of a tapestry where existing threads are woven together with new, creating new possibilities.
We should view the empty nester / downsizing phase of our lives in a similar way. The weaving together of a new way of living using threads and memories from the old.
Whatever you choose to call it, you are in the stage of life when, possibly for the first time, you can choose where to live based on your own dreams and desires and not because its close to school or has 5 bedrooms.
Your home will be an important part of the new tapestry you will be weaving.
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