I have been thinking about all of my connections. I have spent my life moving from place to place and gathering connections to people all across the country. I think trying to gather up a list of these people I wished to invite to this blog is what set me on this train of thought. I started to worry that people I invited would think it weird that I thought of them as some one who I cared to keep in touch with. I know that I hold people in my heart for what they were to me when I was with them. I also know from my travels that many people establish deep and strong connections through time and many experiences. I feel like I have been given a different opportunity. I have spent mostly short periods of my life and experience with many different people in different places. At times I have felt like this has made my life and existence important to no one but my own family. I want you to know that your life and experience and the moments which we shared are my treasured connections. Moving is always an anxious time for me. By now it should be old hat but it is not. Without my family and friends of my heart I would be like a kite without string and I would know you were missing. Thanks friends for giving me so many connections. Thanks family for keeping me yours.
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Oh I hear ya, Chandra! I remember when I was needing some recommendations for graduate school, I needed to have some written by friends or people that knew me for a long time/very well. I struggled to find anyone, because really my friends are my family! And whose gonna trust that a mother or sister wouldn't write an unbiased recommendation? I think I ended up asking my bishop...Anyways, I totally understand how you keep the people that you've met along the way in your heart. And perhaps if they've stayed in the same place they don't hold you as close in their hearts, but then again, maybe they do! I'm not sure that made much sense, but i get you, Chandra. It totally get you!
You make perfect sense to me.
I get it too! And you said it so well, expressed it so perfectly! And I was going to get a recommendation from a lady that dad works with that I think I met once...or was it twice! I definitely relate and again, you said it so well!
Chandra, I am so thrilled that you are in the blogging world! Now we just have to get Christine, Stephanie, Suzanna, Erin and Appen on board. Did I miss anyone? You can find my blog by clicking on my user name and following the link. So glad to hear from you!
I think it's interesting how I can not actually be connected to someone 'cause of lack of communication - day to day life takes over & I can only seem to take care of the here and now - and at the same time they are so much a part of me because they started to live in my heart and never left. I can tell who those people are because of how quickly one small communication takes me back to when they were part of my everyday, and the yearning I feel that we could go back to that place (the day to day friendship place, not the apartment w/no washer & dryer place!). Thanks for giving us a new place Chandra! I've been thinking about this whole blog thing. We've got a family circle one, and I've thought about friends, but it's hard for me to think anyone would want to read my random ramblings. But then I read other people's, and enjoy - I don't think I'm that different. And then there's the time thing. And that could be that I might spend too much time. Obviously, I feel like I have something to say! I'll have to take the plunge. - Stephanie
Charity and Stephanie Yeah! I can't wait till you get started, Stephanie and it'll take me a day or so but I'm so excited t catch up with all that is happening at the Stratton house.
We can't be all alone if so many of us have a common history, can we. I'm not sure I will find as many of my peers blogging. Once I get homeI'm going to see if I can find anyone----maybe I can start a new trend of grandma bloggers!
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