Today is my daughter's baby shower, and it's supposed to rain, so there you have it. I'm looking forward to seeing friends and my daughter's friends and also my older daughter who is here for the event. Sharing joy is the most pleasurable experience, and I look forward to it. I'm evidently in a stage of my life where there are these big passage marking events: weddings, baby showers, births, grandchildren entering schools, piano recitals, drawing contests with prizes. There is celebration continnum going on. I'm a witness and a participant, but it will go on beyond my life and that is comforting and hopeful.
My friends are on this train ride as well; some of them further along and some just beginning the grandparent part. I love these stops at the station, the view from the windows, the passengers getting on and changing. The movement feels forward but may be cyclical. It doesn't matter. It's the togetherness that matters. The human experience: shared.
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