Jeff,
After 35 years, she said to me, as we were separating for the last time, prior to the divorce, “This didn’t turn out like I thought it would.” I knew that already just like we know a lot of things but for one reason or another we don’t want to either acknowledge them or act on them and move on. I guess it’s the moving on part that is sometimes scary, sometimes exciting, sometimes daunting. But since change is the one constant we can count on and we have this amazing opportunity to help design and be the change, we best find ways to make it better than before. I recall reading a little book years ago by Hannah Green (Joanne Greenberg) called “I Never Promised You a Rose Garden.” It was the title as much or more than what was inside that stuck with me. I have found over the years that my garden was whatever I made it and it often depended on how I tended it, watered it, nurtured it and spent time with it. I’ve had some great ones and some that turned to weeds. And once again, we are at a point of another transition in our own lives with BIG decisions, some having been made and others yet to come. Even at this stage (in my 77th year) it’s a blessing and a gift. Faith and fear are perfectly correlated, inversely. The more you have of one, the less you have of the other. Onward…..