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jacquelyn sauriol's avatar

Thanks for this post. This time and these crises have indeed given me a chance to reassess why it is that I was born to be here at this time, with my particular skills and inclinations. I very nearly wasn't, a breech birth with one leg emerging, which had to be sent back to grab both legs. Mom and I never got along well after that first day, but I understand. In so many ways I stand apart from both my family and the vast majority of my friends, former and current, for my rejections of their religions and their worldviews, their aspirations. I am the oddly shaped peg. I am the only American born in my family, the others 3 siblings and my parents all being born in Canada. Of course they influenced me greatly, being raised along side them, and I came to call myself Kinnykin, my 5 year old way of trying to combine the words American and Canadian. But I feel I am kin to something much older, a slow revealing of ways embedded in my cells.

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JS's avatar

It's unfortunate how many decades it can take to allow yourself to start to look for the calling and how many wrong turns you took up to that point.

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