Richard Childs
Jul 25, 2017 · 1 min read

Anna, I experienced that empty nest vacuum as a loss in many ways, most powerfully a loss of higher order purpose.

And parenting represented an opportunity to do the opposite of what I was subjected to, mitigating my pain. And enabling delayed justice, righting what would never be changed, acknowledged nor resolved from my past.

Thank you for this moving reflection.

    Richard Childs

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    facilitator @home in wilds/arts/business/17thC haiku’s, Indigenous/feminist ally

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