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Category Archives: Transitions
The Other End of Leaving Home
A high school classmate asked if I would be interested in contributing to a volume of advice and commiseration for parents whose kids were leaving home. Another friend was experiencing a first time departure and Pam, whose kids had already … Continue reading
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Einstein was right
Lessons Learned in Morocco pt. 1 One of the bloggers I read has invited other people who have lived abroad to contribute to a “lessons learned” theme. I started a list of things I learned while living in Morocco. What … Continue reading
In the Learning Zone
I’d like to say “a number of years ago” but really it was back in 1985. Dad, who had been complaining about having to turn his lecture notes over to a secretary, said, “There comes a time when a man … Continue reading
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Tagged dad, daughter, language, paradigm shift, perspective, teaching, transitions
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Packing Up Down Memory Lane
So here we are, packing up the house we’ve lived in for nearly 25 years. There’s a lot to it. But I suspect you already knew that. First are the things that we each brought with us when we moved … Continue reading
Age Appropriate
Warning: This has nothing to do with either smut or sex. There are some types of knowledge, that, if acquired too soon, you spend a lifetime re-learning. Take your left and right hands, for instance. I’m one of those “other … Continue reading
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If it’s the growing season why isn’t it called “winter”?
In 2016 the Summer Olympics will be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. I looked that up. Wikipedia notes that this is the second time the Summer Olympics will be in the host country’s winter. An interesting paradox that. And, … Continue reading
The Power of Place
When I started to drive for the ambulance service, and was heading for the MDI Hospital, I was instructed to radio ahead when I turned onto Eagle Lake Road letting them know that I had just rounded “RA Corner.” “Don’t … Continue reading
Perspective
I used to sit in Friends Meeting meditating on perspective. My inspiration came from observing the brick wall outside an upper window. Intellectually I was aware that the lines of mortar were parallel, as were the muntins (my first new … Continue reading
Re-entry, or “How I came home to a place I’d never been.”
Ursula Le Guin wrote in The Dispossessed, “You can go home again, the General Temporal Theory asserts, so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been.” I first read that book when I had … Continue reading