2012 - One for the Ages, Grandma Moves On; The Upside of Downunder, New Zealand; Family Angst and Hanging In

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Not this time.

It’s a sad, familiar, and semi-tragic story of so many of our elders.

Over the years after, Linda briefly or rarely brought it up, but then talking about it again after Linda’s own diagnosis, she made it clear that she and her sister-in-law and Grandma had moments of incredible spiritual acuity, beauty, love, and moving on.

Ten years later, two weeks before Linda died, lying in her room Paul half awoke to envision a vertical pillar of luminescent energy chakra-like extending from Divine Mother downward to Paul’s Mom and Grandma within the pillar, their faces mostly, then to Linda and her beaming smile.

Nice vision, or dream. One could do far worse.

God bless the women.

Fellow teachers and students Linda encountered in Bali with Acupuncturists Without Borders prompted a New Zealand journey to visit, another trip of Linda’s design. They’d always dreamed of going to New Zealand, anyway, especially during the adverse US elections and events over the prior decade or two! They were still both young enough and professionally active that they had a shot at emigration if they wanted. The trip was to see if they wanted.