Greetings!
I hope you had a great Summer. Seems weird talking about it in the past tense but it's true, it's Fall already. I just got back from my 45th High School reunion last week. First one I've been to since the 20th. I looked forward to it all Summer and now it has come and gone. It was wonderful to see old friends and renew old acquaintances but the real revelation about reunions came to me a couple of months ago when I received a letter from an old classmate. I had mentioned the perils of being judged by old paradigms in one of my letters and this girl, sorry, woman, wrote saying that she didn't attend reunions for that reason. High School had not been a positive experience for her. I remember thinking, "Wow, High School was such a wonderful treasure trove of experiences and memories for me, why was I not aware of the hurt and pain of someone else within the tiny sphere of my world back then." The answer is pretty obvious, I was a teenager. As wonderful as all 8 of my children were as teenagers, well, it's a time in life when most people are pretty self absorbed trying to find out where they fit in. Teenage-Dom is one of many seasons we will experience in our lives. Don't get stuck in any one of your seasons because the next one will be better. Don't let retirement be your final season. I'm starting a personal campaign to change the word "retirement" to "renewed". Don't retire, Renew! If God lets me live to be 100 I want to have projects unfinished when I die. I want to have a spiral notebook with a long 'to do" list. OK I'm starting to ramble. Hope it's not a sign of a new season. I love you guys, God Bless, Don If anyone is interested, here are some pictures of the reunion on my facebook page. Video on finding joy! | 
