Those darn curve balls of life!!!
And I have been a lifelong runner, jogger. Just, I was doing probably a good three to 5 miles every other day, and I loved it, too. I loved running. It really sucks because I can't do the things that I love anymore. And plus, I guess I know I'm getting older. People have suggested that I could still ride if I wanted to. I would just have to do, like, one of the little three wheeler things
But yeah, there's always something beautiful. I think most of the things that, when I think back to your prompt, things that have been taken away from me or things that have changed to make something that I love no longer possible. Outside of obviously losing loved ones and death and being able to experience time with those people, almost everything that comes to mind is at least interchangeable with something else that I also have learned to love
You. Hi, and thank you for responding. You know, I think as we all get older, we know that we are going to lose our parents at some point, but I don't think that gets any easier. I really don't. I lost my father a few years ago, but in return, I gained more siblings that didn't even know I existed. And so that right there is another story for another time
I know what it's like to move around, and actually, that's kind of why I picked the name Nomad forever, because I like moving around. It's kind of become part of me now where I like to go to different places, and I like to venture out and see new things and go places. And, I mean, I've been to, I think, 13 countries so far, and I've been to 37 out of the 51 states
Angela Kaye
@AnngieKaye · 3:42
Hi, Jacqueline. Thanks for sharing. The curveballs in my life have been losing people I know, like, when I got divorced, that was very devastating because for a lot of reasons, it was devastating. But. But I always tell people that in addition to not having my husband, I lost his side of the family. I loved his mother. I loved my mother in law. I loved my stepson
Shawna Kearsley
@OnAcornBay · 4:55
And I'm at the point where I'm being regretful for him. So I've adopted that feeling as my own where he's concerned. And I guess now, for everyone who has ever experienced anything like that, it's different. And I've never really had a chance to talk about it or even to think about it. You get into the motor mode of it. We do have quite a good time, don't get me wrong. We have fun
And the only reason I have, actually, if I were back in Ohio, where I grew up, I wouldn't even need that because I remember all those places that I'm used to going, but I like to travel, and I'm in Florida now, and so it's getting hard for me to. I have to use gps pretty much to go everywhere. But I just wanted to say that your story definitely inspired me and touched my heart
So my one brother, who is just a year and a half older than me, he lost his half brother a few years ago, and I saw how devastating it was for him. So I just can't imagine losing four of them. Wow. And as far as when you built a relationship with somebody and they have a child and that person is part of your life, that's another thing that would be devastating, is to have them kind of ripped away from you
Shawna Kearsley
@OnAcornBay · 4:25
Because we're often what I can't do. But look at all the things that we are doing. And that's my gift of what I'm going to bring to him today, is all the things that he is doing, and doing them incredibly well. Some of these attitudes occurred, of course, were prior to the wheelchair. So it's like, oh, I've done business this way, I've thought things this way, I've interacted this way
Shawna Kearsley
@OnAcornBay · 2:49
Open your heart wide unto the body of life. For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one. In the depth of your hopes and desires lies your silent knowledge of the beyond. And like seeds dreaming beneath the snow, your heart dreams of spring. Trust the dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity. Your fear of death is but the trembling of the shepherd. When he stands before the king whose hand is to be laid upon him in honor
We do in some way or another, and nobody wants to be constantly reminded of them. But thank you so much for that. I really appreciate it, and I hope more people can see that and understand that and give more love and compassion to those people who are struggling, because it is a struggle. It's a struggle every single day. So thank you for that. Thank you. Thank you. Thank