Joys and Wisdoms

I arrived in Florida on that January day, in an airplane full of cold Minnesotans. I couldn’t help but notice them shedding their sweatshirts for t-shirts as the plane descended. It seemed as if they had no concern that there may be worse weather upon their return as they had no noticeable warm jackets with them, but they didn’t seem to care. Like most Minnesotans I suppose they would worry about that when they had to, no sooner.

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  “What would you do differently, if you could live your life over again?” She pondered silently, as if to carefully review in her mind the important information she would share and then slowly, thoughtfully, she said “I would have been more confident.”  I was a young mother at that time, carrying a laundry basket of children’s clothes through the family room.  I paused when I heard the response on the television.  I stopped and stared at it,