Circles from 2016
Unpublished post from way back in 2016, which seems so very long ago..... Here goes...the unedited, original post: Car rides, no matter how short, seem to be where my children and I have the most thought provoking conversations. Yesterday Chestnut (aka. Sophie) was observing all of the changes in 2016. In her words, if someone had shown us the year ahead on New Year's Eve, there's no way we would have believed what the coming months were to bring upon us.... 2016 has been a year of tremendous change for our little Chesley family....we've been on a roller coaster of medical crisis, loss, confusion, good-byes, setting boundaries, new beginnings, fear wrangling, mindfulness, and rebirth. I won't go into details on many events but I can share that in February John and I separated and we've been living apart since. Let me just say, we are all ok. Truly. The Chesley's are on the road of positive growth and rebirth. Literally picking ourselves up by our bootstraps...