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Unha Engels's avatar

so funny. we are in similar spot. k is doing legal asylum work and i'm getting to health (pilates!) related stuff.

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Jenna Park's avatar

Ooh I want to learn more! It also could be an empty nest thing too which, according to my calculations, you are also in.

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Carrie Snow's avatar

I love all of the elements of this piece that point to the universe intervening your lives in order to give you what you needed, and especially Claudine's premonitory knowing on some level (can you tell I don't believe in coincidences? 😉) about this change.

So many magical moments here. Thank you for brightening my day! ✨

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Jenna Park's avatar

I only have a pdf version, but I wish I can get the printed book that we handbound back. It's somewhere in covid purgatory of lost stuff.

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Tanya Quick's avatar

Being "part of something on a much larger scale" is what I keep pondering from this similar vantage point. Thanks for this, Jenna.

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Jenna Park's avatar

You'll find it, Tanya.

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Yuezhong's avatar

Jenna, I always enjoy your writing, so simple yet so effective. This one is no exception! Loved the lettuce farm office view :)

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jacqueline azzopardi's avatar

Oh this gives me hope that, at (gulp) 55 yo & after 2decades out of the workforce raising my family, & now recently divorced & needing to find work, I can maybe actually hopefully find a job that morphs into something meaningful, albeit one that I begin on a lower rung! Thank you!

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Jenna Park's avatar

You got this, Jacqueline! And whoa, so many changes. And yes! You never know where something will lead.

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Lara Sopchak's avatar

Love your stories, as always. Also I’d never heard the bunny dad lettuce farm story! That’s so crazy!

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Jenna Park's avatar

yeah, I wish I had the original book.

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Annie Gallo's avatar

Mark is amazing. We need more stories like this. Thank you so much for sharing.

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Jenna Park's avatar

YOU are amazing, Annie.

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Andrei Atanasov's avatar

“These were the days when we wiped down our groceries”. God, I’d almost forgotten. It’s amazing how quickly people get used to a new situation, and how quickly we forget what came before. Thanks for a lovely post. Lots of food for thought with this one.

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Jenna Park's avatar

We definitely have shorter memory spans, what with all the information overload that is the norm now.

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Stef's avatar

"the pandemic gave us the excuse to end something that we weren’t quite brave enough to walk away from"...so true!

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