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Author Archives: Susan Young

LIFE, UNWOUND: “Peace Is Every Step”

LIFE, UNWOUND: “Peace Is Every Step”

Valentine’s Day. We pass newspaper stands in pharmacies: covid numbers up, climate temperatures up and down, stock market down. Messages of hate. We read sour headlines, then lift our gaze to the sweets. Candy hearts with messages of love. Chocolate.  Sometimes I don’t know what to do, how to be in this up and down… Continue Reading

LIFE, UNWOUND: WHAT’S WORTH REMEMBERING

LIFE, UNWOUND: WHAT’S WORTH REMEMBERING

Sometimes we don’t know, or want to know, big worldly truths. International politics. Fast-moving viruses. The Earth’s climate crises. And there are smaller personal truths that we also cannot always, or do not, want to see. I acknowledge one here: I am forgetting things. Names. Words. It’s as if “my friend’s name is Grace” or… Continue Reading

LIFE, UNWOUND: Hope for 2022

LIFE, UNWOUND: Hope for 2022

This week, I reread holiday cards and saw in many of them, “here’s hoping for an easier 2022.”  Packing up hope messages, I remembered a lecture I gave years ago in South Carolina. I stood ready to speak, the “mindfulness woman” there to teach “some things that may be new to these fifty people,” advised… Continue Reading

A Fundraiser for the Family Leadership Center and a Great gift for a Grandparent

A Fundraiser for the Family Leadership Center and a Great gift for a Grandparent

Need a Gift for a Grandparent? Consider purchasing the latest book from local Falmouth, Maine author and fellow grandparent Sue Lebel Young: Grandkids as Gurus: Lessons for Grownups FROM THE AUTHOR, SUE LEBEL YOUNG “I thought I knew. I was sure I knew. Oldest of seven children with a whole lot of babysitting under my belt,… Continue Reading

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