Cynthia Sadowski Belanger:  

Planned visit to US, April 2024. God Willing February 2024 Happy Future to all of us. A time of change, renewal and different paths taken in the progression of life. Leaving Sydney for Tasmania. June 2023 Time moves faster than ever., Boomers age and as usual change takes place. I reframe my reality as life produces the unexpected. What path to take in this ever-changing existence for which I am grateful The Ukraine War, China, US, changing political alliances, AI, the Universe, finances and me. Aging and wishing I could add another 20 .years or go back 20 years. Losing family and friends through attrition. The need to look into a crystal ball but having to depend upon myself for answers for my future well being. Now is the time to enjoy the rest of my life. Best wishes to everyone. Thank you for the memories Class of 1965 Robichaud. As we are at the age to celebrate great grandchildren and lifetime achievements. J Returned to Dearborn Heights, Mi early 2017 to sell my mother's house. The house I grew up in on Ross Street and attended Robichaud HS. Memories held dear. Kept the house too long. It had sat empty for five years or so. It was in a total state of disrepair, worst house in the street. It took over two years of hard work by myself, cousin and tradesmen. It was up to Code and ready for market by May 2019. Much had changed in the neighborhood since I left Dearborn Heights as a young adult. One cold Spring day I walked up to Thorne Elementary, St John's Catholic Church. The old Daly Drive In sat deserted and worn, had a new name with breakfast only served for a few hours in the mornings. Headed back around to Robichaud. It was a lonely experience seeing some changes not for the best. But the people of Dearborn Heights that I came to know, where genuine, hard working people. I had several offers on the house by people who wanted to rent it out. I waited until a family man made an offer that would at least get me out of debt, pay the bank back. It turned out to be the right decision. Included in my photos is a picture of the home today, 4th of July 2021. He has made his own changes, for the better. The neighborhood around Robichaud High School between Michigan Avenue/Van Born Road and Beech Daly/Gulley had become known as a flippers paradise. It was called Rental Alley when the area flooded one summer after the storms of 2019. It was good to return to a few old faces. Neighbors who had not moved on. I miss my mom, brother and friends who have passed on. I miss fragments of Detroit I remember. The good old days, growing up in a tightly knit neighborhood/community. In November 2019 the sale of the house went through and by Christmas, I boarded the Amtrak to California and spent Christmas with my daughter. Australia was being consumed by Bushfires and I could not board an airplane back to Sydney until the end of January 2020. I arrived to smoke, total thick smoke blanketed this cosmopolitan city. It was a Black Summer, so many native animals were harmed. Bushfires raged burning so much of the Country. Then red dust storms arrived from the Outback covering homes in red dust then that was followed by floods. I was lucky to arrive back just in time before Australia closed its Borders to the rest of the World due to Covid 19. When we shut down the Country about 40,000 Australians were still overseas and not allowed back in, due to the Virus. One could not leave the Country due to its closure to keep out Covid 19. One needed a Permit to leave the Country. A travel bubble was formed with New Zealand but barriers were broken, Covid 19 arrived with passengers who carried the new strain of Delta. The bubble burst and was closed. We went into tight lockdowns. Finally, the vaccines arrived. First w...Expand for more