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I love this Candace. While my baby days are long behind me, there are other times in life that bring opportunities for rediscovery and new beginnings. Finding myself at such a crossroads now, I look forward to following your new project.

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Thank you so much for reading, Linda, and I really hope the stories I share here will resonate as you navigate a new crossroads in life.

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I’m happy to have happened upon you here, Candace. I was drawn to your art work and then your musings. I picked up watercolor and acrylics about 5 years ago and feel, even though my own baby is grown and building her own nest now, finding the time to create is at times not easy. Here’s a funny synchronicity - my mother’s name is Elena Rose. And we named our daughter Elena Catherine. Fun, right?

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Roseanne, thank you so much for your comment and kind words -- it's wonderful to connect with you, and to hear a bit about your own creative journey over the past few years. It's also wild to hear about the synchronicity of your mother's and daughter's names! How lovely to learn of another Elena Rose in the world :) Thank you again for reading and saying hello, and I look forward to sharing more stories with you soon!

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Kids stay little like that for about five minutes. Hug them, hold them, read to them, take them on walks, laugh with them as they digest their dinner through their cheeks, and if they drop that bazillion dollar telephoto lense, remember they made a lot of those lenses, so just laugh because in the flash of an eye, they will soon be collecting memory care facility brochures on your behalf.

My little butterfly is now a medical professional and an executive, and texts me everyday to tell me she loves me and am I doing anything that might land me in the emergency room.

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