Sometimes when we look at our lives from where we are, we often only see the possibilities that exist within the boundaries of our current reality. We can’t see that there could be more than this.
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A young lady posted a request in my neighbourhood’s Facebook community. She is studying hairdressing and needed someone with curly hair to sit for a blow-wave. I have never paid much attention to such requests, but this time was different. Not only because she needed someone with curly hair (which I have plenty of), but also because it didn’t involve a cut. There are limits to my daring side…
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In September 2015 I received my official (voluntary) retrenchment notice. Wonderful people, who I had built relationships with in the 14.64 years of working for my employer, arranged a farewell for me. When one of my colleague-friends said that she hoped I would soon come back to the company, my response was, “I hope I don’t come back. Hopefully I move forward, not backward.”
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