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Life
Lessons - "New Year, New Choices"
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December
30, 2005
 Hello
folks,
I hope this post finds
you all in good spirits. Below is a piece that I’ve
been working on since October that has been fighting me
for direction. The title has gone through the gamut of
“Deferred Dreams”, “Being Disabled”,
“Choices” and now to finally end with “New Year,
New Choices”. The ease with which I sailed through its
completion today, indicates to me that maybe the
struggle wasn’t about the title, or even the content,
but about the timing:
October 12,
2005, 2:35 p.m.
I’ve just returned
from a very nice wake. That’s right. I said “very
nice wake” as in dead body, weeping and wailing. In
this instance, it was less traumatic, at least for me,
because there was no body. His ashes were in a lovely
wooden box with his pictures on it as well as items
placed on the table which were relevant and important in
his life.
As Gina, my co-worker,
bravely read her husband’s eulogy, I womanfully tried
to hold together the sobs that wanted to break loose
from my chest. I told myself that it was her husband, if
she could hold it together, then so could I. I was
pretty successful at this task, until she got to the
part where she stated,
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entire article
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D.S.
White is the author of Age
is Just a Number (AIJAN). The second edition of
AIJAN will be available June 1, 2006.
Pre-orders are available at Amazon,
ATWC
Books, Barnes
and Noble, or The
Book ClubHouse.
Like snowflakes, the
human pattern is never cast twice. We are uncommonly and
marvelously intricate in thought and action, our problems
are most complex and, too often, silently borne.
--Alice Childress,
1984
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