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Grandmothers Hold On and Let Go
Over spring break, I had a chance to think about the eternal balance for grandmothers as well as mothers – between holding on and letting go. I recognized the dilemma as we took our visiting grandsons to an amusement park that offered trapeze lessons. I watched each of them climb up the tall ladder, perch on the small landing, reach for the bar of the trapeze and then leap out into the air, swinging freely on the trapeze. After a few swings, each one raised his legs up, hooked them … Continue reading
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Tagged anxiety, courage and lessons learned, fear, grandkids, grandmother, grandson, holding on, letting go, pride, trapeze
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