Rev. Dr.Margaret Hodges Ph.D.:  

very rough draft To be edited Hi All! I remember and think of the gift of all the many and diverse and unique dimensions and foundation that shaped each of us in our own unique ways and as a community of friends , families, , communities that affordedi us timeless memories carefree fun , catch your breath laughter, unpexpeted depths of sorrow , , the joys of healing and marriage and either staying inour hometowns, or moving and returning home. The daily opportunity to learninthrough growing through our many teachers , at school from each other , our parents and each others' parents, our the lessons of sports and coaches and team members , learning work by example growing up on a farm and in a town and being taught to love the environment being so close to the ocean and a in a state of such beauty from east to west. and communities from early chilfhood on and into the new ones each dimesion of growing through the years have constantly shaped my life. Memories of you and those of you I stay in contact with contimue to be a key to the real treasures in one of life's rarest joys. To b To be edited and finished later that have come to fruition ,along with those great milestones of childhood and passed along tnew generashared intergenerationally in our lives, and those invariaviarable off the beaten path reunions with one of you or a family member or a friend from an entirely different venue keeps me in awe of how important our foundation that was being formed continues to always be stronger than I ever realized as years go by and more and more of us end up being a part of each other's lives through mutual friends , organizations , or even have just missed each other by a day or so or share the same friends. It is that rare treasure of foundation that we share and build upon that is a one of the rarest gifts of joy in liife. The gratitude I feel and sense of a sharted journey of many diverse paths that always are rooted in the life of friendships is one of the greatest of life's enduring treasures. Invariably those of us who have not seen have each other for 20 or 30 years invaribly will find each other in the most unexpected ways. Those early foundations of friendship have been ongoing roots of interconnections throughout life , sometimes leading to varied mini reunions of memories by running into those uncanny and unexpected mutual connections, see someone or hear a song, pass through a small town, a huge metropolitan city or see homes or land or places where we lived or gathered , I One of the greatest things I have learned is it takes so little to make us happy. There is nothing greater than meeting with or seeing one of you or remembering you and hearing about your lives and how you are. Always looking forward to the next time If I'm going to work somewhere, I need to have Meditation , Exercise , and Creative thinking to be able to deal with the day-to-day. My Mom She Has always been profound in what she said. Never answered by many whys as a chi...Expand for more