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    Not Done Yet...Memories & Other Thoughts
    Not Done Yet...Memories & Other Thoughts
    Not Done Yet...Memories & Other Thoughts
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    Not Done Yet...Memories & Other Thoughts

    By Noreen Gelling

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    Not Done Yet is a collection of shorter and longer essay writings describing moments that form and change a life.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNoreen Gelling
    Release dateDec 27, 2011
    ISBN9781452420431
    Not Done Yet...Memories & Other Thoughts
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      Not Done Yet...Memories & Other Thoughts - Noreen Gelling

      Not Done Yet…

      Memories & Other Thoughts

      by

      Noreen Gelling

      Not Done Yet…Memories & Other Thoughts

      Noreen Gelling

      Copyright © 2011 Noreen Gelling

      Published by Jukiro Creative at Smashwords.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without written permission from the author. This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy. If you are reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to www.Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      The names contained in this book are fictional, the events and moments are not.

      Dedication

      This book is dedicated to the parents I miss, the brothers & sisters I love, the children in my life I adore, the friends I need; and my life partner and soul mate who has been the touchstone in my life for nearly three decades.

      Table of Contents

      Preface

      Chapter 1 Motherhood

      Chapter 2 Mom

      Chapter 3 Fifty & Me

      Chapter 4 Places

      Chapter 5 Am I Still Me?

      Chapter 6 Where or How?

      Chapter 7 Stupid Is

      Chapter 8 Noise

      Chapter 9 Courage

      Chapter 10 Starting Anew

      Chapter 11 My Drive To Do

      Chapter 12 Uninspired

      Chapter 13 Teacher

      Chapter 14 This Time

      Chapter 15 Awesome

      Chapter 16 Did You know

      Chapter 17 Waves

      Finally

      Preface

      I have always written. From as far back in my life as I can remember I wrote poems, stories, random sentences that never went anywhere. This is the start of actually putting my writing together and sending out to the world. I don’t know where it will land. I am hoping it strikes somewhere around your heart and helps you awaken something in yourself that calls you to a better place, forgotten memory or inspiration for tomorrow.

      Some pieces contained herein are longer, but not necessarily more important. They just needed more words. May they fall gently.

      Chapter One

      Motherhood

      There is no way of knowing really, where life will lead. You make your best choices each day and then move on from there. Some days are more successful than others, I guess. Sometimes I think about the varied paths I have walked, and I do an inward shudder at the thought of the place I am in today. Not because it is a bad place, but because I simply cannot imagine my life any other way than it is. Maybe not so much than it is, than who is in it.

      I listen to the boys running around the driveway, laughing yelling wildly swinging a golf club at a soccer ball back and forth back and forth. It is one of their created combo games, soco-golf. They swing; Michael rides his just too small trike around in the madness. I am anticipating that someone will come in the back door crying after having been clocked with a club. I will need to explain well that’s what happens when you play like boys, you win some, you lose some, and some get rained out in a river of tears.

      What brought me here? I never thought it would be this way. How can life be so full of life itself, when you least expect it? How does someone such as me deserve the someone’s they are and are constantly becoming. I don’t know. I sometimes feel as though I am just an honored guest of their journey. That I somehow slipped, or took a wrong turn and landed on their path. Surely their souls sought me out, or drew me in to the journey, for in and of myself, I could not have earned it. Could I have? Motherhood. Not just garden variety motherhood, adoptive motherhood. It is all the same and it is so much different. When a child is created and carried in the womb, the missing, different ingredient is randomness. I so often wonder about the randomness of us as a family. I look at them, each of them, and I understand the gift of spirit called wonder and awe. They take my breath away. Sometimes I watch them when they sleep, so peaceful, so beautiful. I wonder, and I am in awe of the twists of fate, or the plan from forever that brought us together.

      I remember so well the first time I saw each of their faces. Just one of a dozen faces on the computer screen. It was such an odd thing, looking at all the faces of all the children. The instant you see yours, you know them. I tell people that my heart literally skipped a beat in knowing when I saw them. They look at me as if I am strange. I imagine they think I am making it up, or romanticizing an otherwise uneventful moment. Yet it is true. There is no doubt, no shred of hesitation in my mind, heart or soul that they were born for me. Randomly?

      It

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