This is my friend, Angie, at our previous apartment. She started as a CNA (certified nursing assistant) caregiver for me and when that ended I knew a good person when I saw one---we became friends. She is my "Walking Again" partner. She is not yet 30 and is raising her two delightful kids on her own. She is a lot like I used to be: moved to Seattle from small city, plans for starting her own business (which she is doing as a home cleaner) , making a life for herself.
She decided to lose weight, get in shape, and off she went! She started eating healthy, drinking lots of water, walking then running. She joined marathons, then triathlons, WITH her two kids, a son, 7, and daughter, 8---the three of them went up a local mountain and passed other adults, who they had begun with, on their way down! "What will I need to wear? Will there be swimming?" I was asked questions that I could only Google!
The fact that she had never done such physical events never phased her and she always ends having done and gone farther and faster than she could have imagined! She looks like a different person, confident, fit, ready for anything. Don't you just love people like that? She remains close to her children's father's family and has made an extended family for her kids that includes their father and many aunts and uncles. I am so amazed at her emotional strength and her guileless, but true wisdom that has kept her children unscathed by divorce and parental fighting.
Except for the "I Can Do It" attitude, she also reminds me of my mother because she is so incredibly sweet and non-judgemental. She is like a fresh, strong breeze into our apt. now, and we could never have done this last move into the retirement home without her.
Somehow, I have had angels like Angie who enter my life just when I am at rock bottom and desperately need help. I'd tell you I pray for them, but I don't---they appear. (Though I do give thanks!) It has, however, been my experience that they usually leave as suddenly as they appeared. That leaving is always so hard for my partner and me; I hope I am more prepared this time. But, she is young and the world is waiting for her. There is nothing she can't do and she must do it. So, for now she is here in MY world and I am wringing every joyous moment out of her that I can. But why I deserve her, I'll never know.
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Friends and Angels
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She decided to lose weight, get in shape, and off she went! She started eating healthy, drinking lots of water, walking then running. She joined marathons, then triathlons, WITH her two kids, a son, 7, and daughter, 8---the three of them went up a local mountain and passed other adults, who they had begun with, on their way down! "What will I need to wear? Will there be swimming?" I was asked questions that I could only Google!
The fact that she had never done such physical events never phased her and she always ends having done and gone farther and faster than she could have imagined! She looks like a different person, confident, fit, ready for anything. Don't you just love people like that? She remains close to her children's father's family and has made an extended family for her kids that includes their father and many aunts and uncles. I am so amazed at her emotional strength and her guileless, but true wisdom that has kept her children unscathed by divorce and parental fighting.
Except for the "I Can Do It" attitude, she also reminds me of my mother because she is so incredibly sweet and non-judgemental. She is like a fresh, strong breeze into our apt. now, and we could never have done this last move into the retirement home without her.
Somehow, I have had angels like Angie who enter my life just when I am at rock bottom and desperately need help. I'd tell you I pray for them, but I don't---they appear. (Though I do give thanks!) It has, however, been my experience that they usually leave as suddenly as they appeared. That leaving is always so hard for my partner and me; I hope I am more prepared this time. But, she is young and the world is waiting for her. There is nothing she can't do and she must do it. So, for now she is here in MY world and I am wringing every joyous moment out of her that I can. But why I deserve her, I'll never know.
She decided to lose weight, get in shape, and off she went! She started eating healthy, drinking lots of water, walking then running. She joined marathons, then triathlons, WITH her two kids, a son, 7, and daughter, 8---the three of them went up a local mountain and passed other adults, who they had begun with, on their way down! "What will I need to wear? Will there be swimming?" I was asked questions that I could only Google!
The fact that she had never done such physical events never phased her and she always ends having done and gone farther and faster than she could have imagined! She looks like a different person, confident, fit, ready for anything. Don't you just love people like that? She remains close to her children's father's family and has made an extended family for her kids that includes their father and many aunts and uncles. I am so amazed at her emotional strength and her guileless, but true wisdom that has kept her children unscathed by divorce and parental fighting.
Except for the "I Can Do It" attitude, she also reminds me of my mother because she is so incredibly sweet and non-judgemental. She is like a fresh, strong breeze into our apt. now, and we could never have done this last move into the retirement home without her.
Somehow, I have had angels like Angie who enter my life just when I am at rock bottom and desperately need help. I'd tell you I pray for them, but I don't---they appear. (Though I do give thanks!) It has, however, been my experience that they usually leave as suddenly as they appeared. That leaving is always so hard for my partner and me; I hope I am more prepared this time. But, she is young and the world is waiting for her. There is nothing she can't do and she must do it. So, for now she is here in MY world and I am wringing every joyous moment out of her that I can. But why I deserve her, I'll never know.
She decided to lose weight, get in shape, and off she went! She started eating healthy, drinking lots of water, walking then running. She joined marathons, then triathlons, WITH her two kids, a son, 7, and daughter, 8---the three of them went up a local mountain and passed other adults, who they had begun with, on their way down! "What will I need to wear? Will there be swimming?" I was asked questions that I could only Google!
The fact that she had never done such physical events never phased her and she always ends having done and gone farther and faster than she could have imagined! She looks like a different person, confident, fit, ready for anything. Don't you just love people like that? She remains close to her children's father's family and has made an extended family for her kids that includes their father and many aunts and uncles. I am so amazed at her emotional strength and her guileless, but true wisdom that has kept her children unscathed by divorce and parental fighting.
Except for the "I Can Do It" attitude, she also reminds me of my mother because she is so incredibly sweet and non-judgemental. She is like a fresh, strong breeze into our apt. now, and we could never have done this last move into the retirement home without her.
Somehow, I have had angels like Angie who enter my life just when I am at rock bottom and desperately need help. I'd tell you I pray for them, but I don't---they appear. (Though I do give thanks!) It has, however, been my experience that they usually leave as suddenly as they appeared. That leaving is always so hard for my partner and me; I hope I am more prepared this time. But, she is young and the world is waiting for her. There is nothing she can't do and she must do it. So, for now she is here in MY world and I am wringing every joyous moment out of her that I can. But why I deserve her, I'll never know.
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