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About Me — Christianne Asper-Contant
Sitting with ‘What I Love Most’ and remembering a few of the peculiar twists and turns on my way here as I turn 53 today.
Once Conrad, our 6-year-old grandson, learned that this was my last day being 52, to which he exclaimed, “Very old!” he also asked me:
What Do You Love Most?
My response, evoking that joyful kind of teary-eyed response, caught me off guard.
This surprise aside, I also took the opportunity to clarify that in more ways than one, I’m as young as he and wish the same gift for him as time will inevitably also pass for him.
This morning, as I glanced at the purple elephant I was hanging on the wall when Conrad made his inquiry, I thought to take a few moments to write about why I love what I love — What a great gift to myself on my birthday!
‘Noooo…..’ the voice of preservation immediately chimed in. Warning me that this would lead into stories dating back to age five and turn into an all-day project— A valid point since I have zero desire to take hours of this day for writing!
And that’s when the “middle path” voice appeared, as it often does, proposing a compromise. The suggestion to leave an imprint today from the first memory that…
