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A mama story. This shirt always reminds me of my mother. It isn’t because she was a tie-dyed crunchy granola tree hugging hippie like her daughter. When she was in the hospital back in 2010, I was visiting her in South Florida where she and my dad had lived since 1989, having retired and moved to their idea of paradise. He had passed in 2008 of Parkinson’s and she was dealing with kidney disease and CHF. This was early on in her treatment and during a period of multiple hospitalizations. I lived more than a thousand miles away,\u00a0 in a town North of Philadelphia. My visits were periodic at first and then more regular as her condition deteriorated. Toward the end of her life, I winged my way Southward\u00a0seven times to sit at her bedside both in the hospital and in her living room. On the day after Thanksgiving, she joined my father on the Other Side<\/p>\n

Earlier that Spring, I was with her in a Hollywood, Florida hospital room, and she ‘kick<\/span>ed me out’ and told me to go to the beach. I didn’t have a bathing suit or towel with me, so after driving a few miles, I stopped in a store and bought this shirt and a towel to lounge on. As I was there, I overheard a group of 20-something young women talking about their lives. One sighed and said, “I’m in such a happy place in my life right now. I’m almost scared. It’s so perfect.” She was clearly waiting for the other shoe to drop.<\/span><\/p>\n

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In some bizarre way, I find myself doing the same thing. As I evaluate my life, I see more right than wrong with the picture and yet, there are times when I actually look for something to be discontent about. Not enough of this …too much of that. I need a baby bear fix…where I see things as ‘just right’.<\/p>\n

As I go through my day, the semblance of contentment sometimes slips away and I find myself (or actually lose myself) snipping and sniping in my head about all the people whose behavior annoys me, all the shoulda woulda coulda’s from my past; things I wish I had done differently, all the future opportunities I wish to call in and have things as I\u00a0desire them to be; knowing anyway that it is in Divine timing and not always my own.<\/p>\n

This tank top, still one of my favorites long after my mom passed (November 26, 2010), reminds me of the multi-hued aspects of life. One color merges with another, creating a lovely tapestry. This rainbow sheep of the family is happy at the moment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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