Draws close

Time draws close -- close to the time to fly to Texas and once again visit family, and reacquaint ourselves with our roots; time to look for a home to buy; time to soon move to Texas; time to begin the transition into yet another type of retirement.

Yet while time draws close, it also runs out. The time for doing all the above will come and pass or run out.

While time for taxes comes every year, time for leaving this mortal plane comes once to one and all.

Every little closer and then out is one more mile marker toward the final time out call. All face that call; some with fear and dread because they will be dead, others like myself with wonder and awe. It will be, for me, the end of wandering and wondering and the beginning of staying and knowing.