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Wordless Wednesday

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Your elders have done it again little man: put the world in jeopardy for your generation. We’ve been trying to leave it better than we found it, we really have—just as those like your great-grandmother who came before us tried—and we won’t stop. But we humans are a bumbling bunch. That you and your brother and your cousins have wonderful, nurturing parents is hopeful. And that is what I am going to try to concentrate on today. We’ll be okay. We always come back standing and we will again. It’s just going to take longer than we hoped.

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Gretchen Staebler

I am a Pacific Northwest native transplanted to the southeast for 36 years. In 2012, I returned to my childhood home and fell in love with this corner of the country again. I am a grandmother, a storywriter, a teacher, an attention payer, a hiker, and a back roads wanderer. Check out my website (and my memoir) at www.gretchenstaebler.com. View all posts by Gretchen Staebler

4 thoughts on “Wordless Wednesday”

Bonnie Rae says:

November 10, 2016 at 7:17 pm

Thank you for the beautiful sentiment and for always seeing what is important ♡

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1. Gretchen Staebler says:
  
  November 10, 2016 at 7:46 pm
  
  Sigh. Thank you.
  
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Patricia Hannum says:

November 9, 2016 at 11:56 am

I agree…I am hugely disappointed today. Thinking of my little grands and great grands I believe they have loving/caring/nurturing parents who will go to the ends of the earth for them. I will too as much as I can…

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1. Gretchen Staebler says:
  
  November 10, 2016 at 7:48 pm
  
  Lucky kids. We will survive this. I wish I were as hopeful for the marginalized among us.
  
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