2019 - Getting Cert in CBD; Acupuncture & Guinness Drafts; Sober Reflections, Worries and Aloneness; Wafts of Reconciliation
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To Paul’s gratification and hope, age and perhaps wisdom diminished the differences that impelled them to divorce 15 years earlier. They began talking again about stuff they gave up on before. Not reconciliation per se, and calmer than in their past, they shared and importantly understood better. They offered and accepted apologies, regrets, and forgiveness. There appeared some hope, however faint and tenuous, that their dreams as young lovers of serenely sailing into old age together might revive, and they could reunite.
Of course, it was not to be. Time was running out.
It seemed like Linda was moving on to a different professional track, or ready to. Looking to work less but stay engaged, she enrolled in a west coast university certificate course of studies about the medical applications of CBD and THC. This was not a la-la course. It dove deep into the basic science and neurology-biology, even the biochemical properties that created the various validated therapeutic effects. Never a science buff, more a holistic processor, she dug into the research with a rigor and intellectual sharpness that amazed and delighted her. Her research papers struck Paul as top notch, rigorous, in depth, and right on. She was invited onto a national panel of consulting nurse practitioners (called “LEAF”) available to physicians and medical practices as well as to lay persons-patients.
She loved it, thrived on it, and was good at it.
Acupuncture remained Linda’s primary livelihood and love, and she ventured to Ireland with Jeet for yet another approach to needling diagnostics and treatment. There in Dublin, not at all an alcohol imbiber, she nonetheless sampled and admitted Paul’s fondness for Guinness had some basis! She brought him back his Walton family Coat of Arms.
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