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Senior moment...

4/28/2015

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SO I turn 40 this year, my gray hair is taking over, the creases in my forehead have grown steadily deeper and my little girl has grown up.  She turns 18 this year and graduates, and leaves home for her first foray into the great wide open.  This transition though always requires photos to mark the moment in memory.
  So a very talented and accommodating friend took her out to do senior pictures last week and one in particular caught my attention.  I'm sure you immediately are aware of the most obvious reason, the yellow line is very telling….
     The more i looked at this picture, though, the more it said to me- in the way of life lessons and being aware of the moment we are in now.  So often we look for a map when we are smack dab in the road of life unaware of just how inappropriate our stopping point is.   Looking at this picture it occurred to me just how dangerous it is to stop midstream to consult the map.  You really do need to disengage, and pull over to the side of the road to evaluate where you are. How often do we disengage from what we're doing to just think about where we're going?  I'm usually in the middle of multitasking when I'm attempting to decide the direction I'm going in life.  How can we expect to make good decisions whilst dodging traffic in our head?  
  The irony is that she is holding a map of NY state, exactly where she isn't. Our roadmaps to life are mostly made up of past experience. Those aren't always accurate maps of where we are now-but we use them anyway; for lack of a better map.  When we multitask our way through life we are less capable of discerning the appropriateness of the map we currently hold.  We are more likely to repeat mistakes, over and over….
Funny how a scary senior picture can illuminate our senior moments….

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    Eva Taylor

      Born in New Hampshire and raised in Maine, Eva's passion for living self sustainably began with Helen and Scott Nearing.  Both were homesteaders who carved their lives from the land.  Eva now lives in Eastern West Virginia, with her husband Dain and daughter Shayna, carving out her own life.

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