A Summers Feast
By: Ivy Gray
This summer I had an unexpected career pause. Unexpected because it wasn’t my desired outcome but not unprepared because I’ve learned a while back to be financially disciplined for rainy days and hard times. My livelihood is in nursing and for three years now, I’ve been working as a travel nurse. A very popular road traveled due to the pandemic that we’ve just experienced along with the cultural excitement and desire of fast money that entices us all. The problem is this, when there is no contract, there is no paycheck. Hence, the importance of financial literacy and disciplines.
(Save your money)
This summer, for me, contracts were hard pressed and because of personal life changes and better opportunities, I was already segueing into another genre of nursing. To my surprise, some of my life-long hidden passions outside of nursing sprung forth out of me, one of them being writing. I’ve always been a writer as naturally as the involuntary inhale and exhale of my lungs or the unsolicited beating of my heart. That's how natural writing is to me. I never knew that it would be exposed to the world as I was comfortable keeping it hidden.
When you can no longer do what's required of you, you begin to do what you’ve been created to do.
I spent the summer writing and publishing my first book titled, “From My Journal Notes, All of that was for this.” Here comes that hard part. Getting you to care! You have your own passions and endeavors, a set of skills to be admired in your own right. Why make time for mine? You’re hungry too and surely you don’t want to sit around and watch me eat alone, starving your need to feed your own passions. These are the questions I’ve asked and the thoughts I've pondered concerning presenting myself to you. Then I thought, We can all eat from the same table, as long as we bring our own dish to share. I have many passions, they are all rivers that run together into the ocean of serving: As a nurse to your health, a writer to your mind, and I love to host friends for dinner which is the correlation of this analogy.
This blog site is a dinner table with enough place settings for each of you. Some days we can dress it with cloth linen and Fine China, other days paper plates and plastic cutlery. It all depends on what dish you bring to the dinner table. The only requirement is that you are here because you want to be here. This blog site is for Whom it May Desire.
Today, I’m bringing my book to the table.
