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In my last post, I declared my yearning to live. Not only in this fifth decade I’m now working on, but in my day-to-day life. Thank you to my dear, childhood friend Kay Whaley Rowan for capturing a moment, and for allowing me to be this person, especially on her watch. These photos demonstrate exactly what I mean. . . not so much the risk involved (yes, I know I could have broken something), but the want-to that exists in me every single day. I’m pretty sure I get this from my mother, following one of her Thelma-isms of “. . . let’s do something, even if it’s wrong. . .” We begin here, dockside of the Rowan family home on Lake Sinclair, Georgia; a stunning little slice of Heaven I like to think of as my second home. To know the Rowans is to understand that their home is a hub for all family and friends. I’m lucky to be included, but I’ve known Kay since we were in Mrs. Claxton’s fourth grade homeroom, and I call dibs on her from time to time.  Another take-away from this outing: Hang out with teenagers more.  There’s so much to learn from them, too.

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Here we sit, me extolling the virtues of SPF 30+ to these young beauties. They’re probably smiling politely and “yes ma’am-ing” me just to get me to hush. You remember that age when having a tan just made your world feel better?  They were prepping me on what it would be like to jump from the train trestle into the lake.

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So, we made it out to the trestle. I won’t go into the innumerable details that it took to get to this point. Suffice it to say, it takes feet soles-of-steel and upper body strength that eludes me. Here I am, taking in the gravity of how high up this bridge is, how hot the track is, and how damn easily those young people hopped right up.

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Definitely having second thoughts. . .but the only way down is, well, down.

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The Jump.  Look at all those magnificent teenagers! And Me!!!  Can I tell you how encouraging, how sweet, how amazing they were? And my friends Kay + Jeff were, I’m sure, shaking their heads from the boat.

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Our reward at the end of a great day: this sunset.  No filter!!!  One of the many reasons that Georgia will always be on my mind.

 

 

 

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