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Shedding Her Skin

She Shed Her Skin
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(Updated January 13, 2019)

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In simpler days, people pretty much stayed who they were and where they were. If you were a farmer, you stayed on a farm. An attorney remained in the law.  A nurse kept caring for patients.  Today, the marvel of available education allows us to decide who and where to be, at any time during our life.  You can reinvent yourself over and over during a long lifetime.  Watching a friend do that, is what led to this story.

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Shedding Her Skin  –  #03

She was moving out of the home she had lived in for decades; feeling like a snake shedding its skin.

She hated leaving the well read books, but knew she had extracted from the musty bindings, all their wisdom and wizardry.

Parting with the clothes was hard.  From bargains never worn, still bearing tags, to favorites now worn to a thread. And the photos; surely precious heirlooms, every one.

She packed boxes of souvenirs and somehow started to feel free. A burden lifted.  A life simplified.  Nothing important given up, just stuff now getting in the way.

As she lightened her load, she planned her future. What a surprise!  The snake that shed its skin had morphed into a golden eagle, just beginning to spread her wings.

P.S.   

We are so blessed to live to the current age. So many people in their fifties are switching careers or taking on entirely new tasks.  Those of us in the sixties or seventies are reinventing ourselves at will, backed by the health, education and stamina to do so.  My friend, the golden eagle, made her mark on the world after rediscovering her talents and abilities and gaining the courage to proclaim them.  Have you done something similar?

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