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A New Mantra

 “This is your show… “You make it up as you go along… “You are doing the best you can! Always.” As I have stepped into being a new grandmother, this has become my mantra. Oh, I have been a grandmother for some dozen or more years, but this time around I am invited into the intimacy of the multi-generational show. It has been a gorgeous, heart rending, respectful time filled with admiration and growth. And it has been filled with differences, dismay and questioning, hopefully internal! Whenever we step into life’s mysteries we are forced by circumstance to reach within ourselves and find out what we are made of. In short, we grow. And in growing, of necessity, we change. But what is our relationship with change? This is a question that I frequently pose to students at the beginning of our work together. Some of us change only when our back is to the wall, when there appear to be no other options. Others of us sort of blow where the winds of change take us. Then we look...