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Clicking Our Heels – Dreams or Wishes for Others

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Clicking Our
Heels – Stiletto Gang Members Dreams or Wishes for Others

At the end of
the year, people begin to think about New Year’s resolutions, but the Stiletto
Gang decided to think of a dream or wish each one would have for someone in the
future — and the Gang is letting you in on those dreams or wishes.

Julie Mulhern – I have two daughters and I wish happy, healthy
lives for both of them.

J.M. Phillippe – I feel like my day job as a therapist has
me dreaming and wishing for people’s futures all the time. I just want people
to be able to feel joy in their lives–whatever shape joy takes.

Linda Rodriguez – My dream or wish for the future is for all of us. I
would wish that we would become a society that values people and uses things
rather than the society we have become that values things and uses people and a
country where the law binds all people of all classes and also protects all
people of all classes. I do believe if this dream came true we would have a
wonderful country to live in.

Bethany Maines – Tricky question! Is my interpretation of what’s good for someone
else’s future correct? I wish my daughter would win the lottery for over ten
million dollars.  Then I’ll move in with her when I’m old and do nothing
but float in the pool and drink mai tai’s and host book clubs. Too
self-serving?  OK, if I’m being altruistic and wishing for someone else to
truly get their dream I would wish that the Greta Thunberg is entirely successful
in her pursuit of environmental change.


Kay Kendall
– I fervently wish for Earth’s population that the ecological damage humans
have wrecked on the planet would be reversed.

Shari Randall – This is kind of out of left field, but I
wish and hope, in the future, that libraries will be funded and recognized for
the important work they do in building a literate world.

Dru Ann Love
– I wish my mom didn’t have cancer.

Mary Lee Ashford – Oh,
wow. So many wishes for so many people. I have six grandchildren and so they
immediately come to mind. For them, and really for all my friends and family, I
would wish health and happiness. In addition, I’ll share my own life goals
because these are things I’d wish for them:  #LiveBrave #LoveHard
#LiftOthers

Debra H. Goldstein – “World Peace” with
acknowledgements to the movies.


Cathy Perkins – Wow, where to start? So many personal wishes are crowding into my mind with friends facing tough financial or medical challenges, along with the selfish, I want my kids and their spouses to be happy. Like Debra, I’m tempted to go with the global “world peace.” (Lord knows we need it!) Anybody who has peeked at my Facebook posts knows I care passionately about the environment, so my wish is people wake up to the damage we’re doing to the planet.

Perils of a Big Family

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Everyone knows I have a really big family. Not only is mine big, so is my sister’s. She had one less child than I did with 4, but those four have managed to produce 15 with three step kids thrown in there, and then there’s the great grands which I won’t even attempt to count. She hasn’t caught up with me yet.

This June I received so many graduation announcements–middle school, high school, and two Masters degrees. And then there are all the birthdays–I only send birthday greetings to my own children and grandchildren now. (For those that are on Facebook, at least I can say Happy Birthday.) I’ll not even mention Christmas. My sis and I quit giving each other birthday and Christmas gifts long ago when this whole family thing got out of hand.

We are called upon to help out a lot too–we’ve raised a grandson and granddaughter, have another adult grandson living with us. Last week, a grandson called and asked his grandpa if he could come up to the school and help with back-to-school night, cooking hamburgers. He put on his apron and took off.

Sadness and worries abound too. Then there are the illnesses and accidents. Fortunately, we’re a praying family, so people can be assured of many prayers.

We have our share of drama: marriages in trouble, babies arriving without a marriage, teens in trouble, and so on. (My husband says that’s why I watch the soap General Hospital, because they have more problems than our family does.)

Right now, one of my sister’s granddaughters has put herself in peril. She’s 19 with some disabilities, physical and mental. The girl met some older man on Facebook who lived in the big city she lives in and he came and took her to his house. Her brother figured out where and went and brought her back. The guy got her again. A girlfriend went there and took her home. She left again.

Her parents are distraught. It is taking a toll on the mother’s already bad health though she manages to work every day. They’ve gone to the police, but because she’s over 18 and they are not her legal guardians–merely her parents–she can do what she wants.

From what we’ve heard the man has told her that she’s being cheated out of her social security money by her parents. Impossible, since she’s not getting any and never has. Of course she’s unhappy about other things, she thinks her parents are preventing her from going to college and getting a job. Maybe they are, I don’t know. Maybe they’ve been overprotective. She finished high school, but got a special ed. diploma. I’m not around her all that much, but almost every time I have been, she’s had a recent seizure or has had one at whatever event we’re attending including last year’s family reunion.

Of course this young woman is in peril–she has no idea.

Not sure where I’m going with this, I think I just needed to get it out in the open.

On the plus side, I love my family–all of them. Most of the time, things move along well and I get to hear about their accomplishments, the sports the grandkids are excelling in, the dancing competitions, how much they love school, and on and on.

We’ll get through this crisis, we’ve done so with all the others.

Marilyn
http://fictionforyou.com

I write because I can be sure there’ll be a happy ending.