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9 months ago
in Tsh Oxenreider asks: In what way are you delightfully conventional? on Carrie and Danielle
When I was about seven years old I loved drawing conventional houses and my aspirations were simple. Marry, own a house and have children. Sadly peritonits as a teen put paid to the children part of my dream but most all the serious satisfaction of my life comes from being a homeowner and married woman.
I have my mother to thank for my career as such as even in the 1950s she was a strong believer in "girls getting a qualification" years ahead of her time really. I guess nursing and midwifery are pretty conventional careers for a woman and i have never been seriously tempted to try anything else.
I can lay claim to being pretty unconventional in my pioneering home birth in the city I live in. That Was way way outside convention in the 1970s. No one who knew me was surprised and why would they be?
I have my mother to thank for my career as such as even in the 1950s she was a strong believer in "girls getting a qualification" years ahead of her time really. I guess nursing and midwifery are pretty conventional careers for a woman and i have never been seriously tempted to try anything else.
I can lay claim to being pretty unconventional in my pioneering home birth in the city I live in. That Was way way outside convention in the 1970s. No one who knew me was surprised and why would they be?
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Joannie
Jennifer: in Canada nursing was - is? - pretty conventional but not midwifery. (I do love the way the British say this word! mid WIF ery! :) ) I believe the reason or at least one of the reasons may be that the physicians in Canada put up resistance to the idea of someone other than them help women to birth children. A power thing?
9 months ago
in Patti Digh asks: What would you be doing today if you only had 37 days to live? on Carrie and Danielle
The word should in fact needs to be urgently banned from the English language
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Alison
Someone wonderful once said to me that in life, your reasons are important. If you make a decision because its safe, because you're obligated to, because you lack faith in others or in general, or because you're hiding yourself from the world, ultimately, its not a truly good decision.
9 months ago
in Patti Digh asks: What would you be doing today if you only had 37 days to live? on Carrie and Danielle
Apolite suggestion. What you might regard as clutter would/could be so very precious to the children. Regardless of their age involve them. I helped my Mum declutter near the end of her life and she was very moved by some of the things that I thought were precious. A sun faded water painting of the sea view where she grew up in Fiji. I had it reframed and it is very precious to me.
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leanne
When my Granny passed away, all I wanted was a very old flour sack tea towel that she used exclusively for covering her cinnamon buns when they were rising. It is stained and faded, and it is one of the things I cherish most...that, and the chipped brown betty teapot she always made tea for us in. They both would have been thrown out if I, by chance, had not been there to rescue and claim them. Your suggestion will be a precious gift to anyone who takes your advise. Thank you.
