We recently married off our daughter Emma. What a silly turn of phrase. All we did is pay for it. It’s her life. Their love. Their new life together, but if anything it is a milestone–a beginning of sharing her with another. An ending of our baby girl being ours.
A moment, to say yes to whatever is next. When I retired from our company due to migraines, grief really, I couldn’t see far enough ahead to have a future. Now that the migraines are gone, it’s time to dream.
I haven’t wanted to imagine it. I can’t really bear the weight of potential.
One child’s had a baby, made us grandparents, we accept with the ground rules kids bring to new life these days. I hope to be a good influence, if allowed.
Another got married. Others work or go to school, the future is unwritten for them. Their stories are midsentence, if you will.
What about me? I just turned sixty, which I find incomprehensible. In my mind’s eye I’m about thirty. I literally look at wedding photos as if seeing a stranger. Who is that old woman?
And what’s next for her?
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I tried to respond but apparently I don’t know my WP log in any more.
What I wrote was, the questions about what next are also pressing on me. Though I LOVE writing books, it hasn’t worked out economically and I don’t know that I can justify spending another 2 years earning half minimum wage! Appreciate this line we accept with the ground rules kids bring to new life these days.
Blessings.
Dorothy Littell Greco Website https://www.dorothygreco.com/ Link to For the Love of Women https://www.amazon.com/Love-Women-Uprooting-Healing-Misogyny/dp/0310166705/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1SCDQNM5N8A6Y&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.5mbrlZXi9MtdcBdXtUWlym9Jn8U0hHN4kIq0pKcBbbVMU-iKCCykyUVEaWRLrr0A.rmUiAqGvzsdODw8IzVo0nLG5j9dlddwMQ18RcSh2h1E&dib_tag=se&keywords=for+the+love+of+women+dorothy+greco&qid=1747222192&s=books&sprefix=for+the+love+of+women+dorothy+greco%2Cstripbooks%2C62&sr=1-1
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