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Four Decades Ago I graduated from 8th grade...and almost 3 Decades Ago Became a Parent...thinking of life time lines by the decades...

on Fri, 08/18/2017 - 04:24

Remember playing hide and go seek and counting by 5s to let people hide? We'd call out, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50, 55, 60 (boy the numbers were getting up there...what comes next? Oh yeah..) 65, 70, 75, 80, 85, 90 (surely, everyone's got a good hiding place by now and it could be hard to know where to start looking since everyone hides so well in our big yard around the house along the woods even with boundaries one couldn't go past..) 95, 100! Anyone Around My Goal Is It!

What if we thought about the numbers as Years of Our Lives, counting by 5s and 10s... It dawned on me that I

Looking back over the last few decades (yes 30 Years)--It Went By In Unexpected but Remarkable Ways..

on Mon, 02/13/2017 - 17:02

Looking over the memories on FB is helpful... and on the date 29 years after being married (Feb 13th) and having four kids (plus 5 miscarriages who I named and do count in as spiritual helpers for our crew and hopefully we served some purpose for them as well)...a whole new field of inquiry could allow more healing on one of those common but not much discussed areas..I will reflect more on the theories I've heard on livfully.org and how some things played out for me.

One point was that after three miscarriage after our first lovely healthy child, I was worried I couldn't have any more... yet