Forks In The Road

[Tess Dickenson]

I spent hours on the back porch with my grandmother – sipping iced tea, sweet and cold – listening to the stories of the child I had once been and the adventures I had embarked upon. I heard of the fearlessness of a young girl full of determination and courage, tales accompanied by the backdrop of cricket song and cicadas humming in the summer evenings. I saw myself through the eyes of another – eyes wiser and richer than my own with memories and perspectives lost to me. Hours were spent poring over photographs in the school yearbooks, revisiting the years filled with teen angst and insecurity … remembering the dreams, the hopes, the possibilities and the magical sense of invincibility. Each story, each photograph, each memory brought not only recollection, but unexplored avenues – each full of opportunities to spread my wings and fly. I began to see not only the woman I was at my very core, but also the woman who could have been had any other forks in the road been chosen; I began to see the woman who could yet be.

[Wendy]

Oh the places you will go! GO, TESS, GO!!! :) Loved the feel of the wise women and the possibilities. Endless.

[Linda Davenport]

"I began to see the woman who could yet be."

Go, Tess, go! Fly!

[Absolutely*Kate]

Ms Tess ... My pal, Ms Absolutely*Kate asked me to remind you of my wisdom:

"WHEN YOU COME TO THE FORK IN THE ROAD ------------------ TAKE IT!!!"
~ Love'ya,
~ Yogi

[Absolutely*Kate]

Ah yes . . . that magical sense of invincibility . . . the backdrop croon of cricket song. Well Jiminy, Ms Tess the true -- it already IS so much that is you ... Just tap your teal heels three times and you're back there in all the places you're headed . . . once again . . . once again.

As the good folks o'6 did state ... lovely, great,
but then again ~ how could it be otherwise?

~ Absolutely Glinda*Kate

[michael r. oconnor]

We can learn so much from the elders. Its almost hard to imagine that they have the uncanny ability to remember us better than we do ourselves. Great story Tess.

[mal]

Yes it sure is a loverly story Tess, and your family ties are wonderful too.

[Cath Barton]

That is beautiful Tess.

[Lydia]

Beautiful story Tess,especially the last line I loved;wonderful.

[Toby Tucker Hecht]

Your grandmother was very wise and so are you for getting her message correctly. Wonderful 6.

[Michael Brown]

The wisdom was contagious, and your tale is beautiful.