mindful musings...for whom? perhaps just myself. perhaps for you, my fellow life-long-learner. i've written in journals that will discarded in time. here, i will share with you what life has taught and continues to teach me. first of all, i am a slow learner. life's lessons are re-presented, until we learn them. so do not be surprised when you see me miss the lesson on many occasions. life is full of opportunities to learn. i am a life long student.
compared to childhoods now-mine was idyllic. mom a nurse and daddy a plumber. solid citizens with strong mid-western values/ethics. they raised the five of us with all the love they had and all the parenting skills they had at the time. you might say that each of us had a different set of parents. they too learned as they went. church-Catholic. work-"a days work for a day"s pay". your "word" was your bond. life was clearly much simpler then.
as a child i know that i felt that i was number three. mom favored my older brother and daddy favored my older sister. it was natural. being the next of five, i "danced" harder to be noticed/appreciated. eventually my vocal abilities would draw their favor. that came later.
i lived under their roof until i was 13. that's when i went off to high school. a boarding school in st. charles, illinois. there i began to learn who i am. i found that God had given me more than joy in singing, but a real talent.my friends valued that gift. my parents were proud of me as i sang. i was happiest while singing. as the nuns told me, "you're not the student your sister was." they were correct. she was the academic and i was the singer. lucky me!
there were many lessons to learn in highschool. that's for another entry.
