Serendipity

From the time I was a child, who had a younger brother and sister, and later a step-sister and four step-brothers...into adulthood, having no less than one child with me (and up to 6 children in the household--my three and 3-step-children--at one time)...then living with my daughter and her three for most of the last decade, I have not known "silence". There was always, always the sounds of children in my home where-ever I have lived. For all those years in my adulthood, the need for silence, peace and quiet, away from the daily influx of noise, was a thing I coveted. It was my way of recouping and maintaining some degree of sanity...away from children and husbands. What little time alone that I did get, was rare...and there were times that I was lost because that silence was deafening to me. Call it a misguided sense of co-dependency. When I moved away from my daughter's home last September, away from my grand-children and their daily noises, I was like a bird t...

Whether these changes are good or bad depends in part, on how we adapt to them. But, ready or not, here they come...   [I can't lay claim to these thoughts...they were in an email!]     1.   The Post Office   Get ready to imagine a world without the post office. They are so deeply in financial trouble that there is probably no way to sustain it long        term. Email, Fed Ex, and UPS have just about wiped out the minimum revenue needed to keep the ...