Limbo

Many of us live in limbo or waiting and wondering; wondering where we will be living, wondering if we can afford to move, waiting until that promotion,working on a job change, wondering how it will all work out.
I think about this a lot: especially as a baby boomer more at the end of a career that at a beginning of one.
Money we thought could sustain us through and until a retirement and then boom something happens and our plans, dreams hopes are in question and we wonder.
Life is difficult and sometimes our plans don't work out. So many things have happened this year in the american financial scene to give me pause: the housing market, the oil crisis(?) and consequently gas prices for all of US, the job market, hopes of early retirement possibly gone,etc., rising wheat and grain prices and big increases in food costs.
Then there is the mother factor. As a parent of two twentysomethings, just starting out in their careers I see them struggling with decisions as well. Costs of masters degrees, and living costs, gas prices, wanting to purchase a home and trying to cobble together down payments. So not only am I wondering about our own retirement costs and options but natural maternal concern for what their life will be like.
Life goes on....
I try to temper all this with things that bring me pleasure: my gardening, reading, walking with my Cavalier, connecting with family and friends.