18Being60_Evolution

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I have to say I was inspired by Stefanie aka eyeore for this page. I knew I wanted to use this template, and hers was so so beautiful, I had to make an effort not to lift it to the t.... so I tried my best moving things around and using different stuff, but the placement of those yellow bars stapled I couldn't resist, it completes the template so well.... so I left it as Stefanie used it, but the whole page was inspired on hers
As I made a page for one of February's Challenges that had photos of Sarita and myself over the years, I thought I go a little tiny bit different this time, especial;y as I will be 60 in 6 months. I don;t have many photos of my 20s, as, even though I was always a keen memory keeper, we had no digital and also I lost my entire life twice and almost three times in life, plus moving around the world so much... anyway, the journaling (with minor changes I maybe made to make it fit in the space) reads something like this:
life teaches us on the way and we, hopefully, learn the lessons that
bring us to belief, understanding, faith, patience, values changing
radically (or not) through the years, hearts that may last a season
or a life time, but most become part of our own…. I have found so many of those hearts both in my blood family and in my friends, in such a blessed manner, to the point that some of those hearts have now become our so loved family, in some cases with stronger ties than those of the blood ones. At 6 months to go for the gong to announce my 60th year on this earth, life finds me with a heart so full of gratitude in so many ways, it would be impossible to list, a bit of pride & very, very few regrets, which I wouldn’t change anyway as those regrets brought me to where I am today, with a wonderful -very large-family, good number of amazing 40+ years friendships, some equally amazing 20 something years ones, some 10s and some more recent, but all fill my heart with more of that gratitude, more love that could not be explained with words, and bring me to the knowledge of age being just a number, or maybe not, may be as the number increases, more love and understanding, more wisdom and pride for the scars, every fall that has taught us new beginnings so that there is nothing I can think I would ask, well, yeah.... maybe a new body, a relatively healthy one, so we can keep counting for me to see my baby marrying an amazing, hard working respectful man that loves her and for her, and seeing my baby having her own babies…that would be truly, a real gift.
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