This is a photo of my precious family at a gathering of friends from long ago. We gathered to reconnect in the midst of so many variables, new addresses, older adult children with beautiful lives that seem so well-suited to their gifts and graces, and the phenomenon of being "family" during the holiday....happy to see each other but very happy about private lives lived away from home. We are smiling like it's been easy. We are smiling because we love to have good visits with good friends and good food. We are a family that has braved some very stormy seas in the last decade....I rejoice that we smile, and hold each other in gratitude. There is an unusual freedom here....freedom to love, and to receive the changes that have come our way. To remain open, to receive the many joys, comforts, failures, and triumphs that life has brought along the path.....this is a new skill for me, a very good process to be in, and I am grateful.
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