....I’m a baby boomer… My big 6-0 hap-
pens on Jan 31, 2006 and I’ve got to say I’m feeling good about it…. Well hell, look at the alternative of not getting older and unless you really believe all your work is finished here, who wants to go to the other-side??? Not me, and not yet…I’ve got so much left to do and I always think it’s funny that for the last ten years or so, I’ve been preaching that we can live to be 120 (healthy). Someone once said to me, who would want to live to be 100, and I said, “I don’t know! why don’t you ask someone 99”. Spirit/God called many people back home last year, there was so much death on the planet and Mother Earth was so angry. As one consciousness we were all grieving. I just wonder what it will take to get those responsible for, ”not getting it”, to get it. Can’t we go back to the time of Wizards and find Wisdom. Or maybe we are the Wizards!
...The one thing I don’t like so far about getting older is the loss along the way…All of the sudden you know a lot of people that are sick and people you’re used to hearing about, are just gone…
...The big 6-0 really feels different, it feels like a long time to be on the planet and it feels like something undefined! It is definitely a mark of time that sounds old, feels young and makes you have a need to be profound. It feels like I’ve graduated from the school of hard knocks to the school of Wisdom, where I start my elder-hood. I think this class is the final study; the one that teaches us the virtues of life and the payoff is simply letting you stay in for as long as it takes you to “get it”.
...This year I lost my best friend Nick, he was three months short of being 92. He had wisdom, class, and kindness plus a whole lot of other things that made everyone love him. We were friends for forty-one years. He was my mentor when my world was the darkest. I was only nineteen when we met and Nick took me under his wing and taught me the restaurant business. He was the best in that business and had an eye that could spot a missing soupspoon from one end of the dining room to the other. He had a thing about cold food too, and if he entered the kitchen and the waitress (me included) wasn’t standing right there to run the food straight out to the customer, he’d go over to the chef’s pick-up station and throw the food in the garbage and say do it again, he’d say “at Nick Beni’s, we serve hot food”. Not only that but when he knew someone didn’t tip prop-
erly, Nick would wait for them as they were leaving and ask them how was the food and the service? Of course they said everything was great and then Nick would ask, “Why didn’t you take care of my girls?” In over thirty years in that profession I never had that happen except when Nick was my boss. He always helped, he was always fair and he always came from his heart. Now that’s wisdom. Nick died on Jan. 4th 2006. I’ll miss him a lot. What a way to start the New Year!
...The end of last year (2005) was also a time of endings for me. I lost my mother on Oct. 21st but I wasn’t notified for ten days. When she died hurricane Rita hit south Florida and some areas didn’t have lights and phones for a week. After that it took another two weeks to get her body cremated and now she seems content to be in my office next to a large statue of Quan-Yin, the goddess of compassion. We always had a challenging relationship and my daughter asked why I didn’t disburse her ashes immediately. I said it was nice for a change to have a mother that is silent and at peace with herself and the world. Of course, I will take her ashes to her resting place in up-state NY sometime this spring. She died at age 84 and I wouldn’t describe her as a person having had much wisdom; but she had survival skills that most people don’t have a clue about, and who knows, maybe *that is* true wisdom.
... I also lost my sister in September, 2005. We weren’t close but losing a sibling was a strange feeling. I did some release work on my ancestral lineage early last year and cleared all the women from abusive patterns that I felt was blocking us all from our inherent good. I can’t say that I was surprised that after the old energies were lifted the two women that were trapped in the spiral descent of dysfunction, chose to leave the planet and finally gain their freedom. I like to think they left together, to be together on the other side where there is only love. Is that Wisdom?
...I feel like an elder with the heart of a child. Beginning the journey of mastering my own new identity. I have entered the second-half of my life. Bye honeys,
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