An Emotional Day...

It's a very emotional day today. So much happiness with an undercurrent of sadness. Last night's neighbourhood reunion party was the first time I had seen most of the people there for 40 or more years! What an electric atmosphere, to be in a room with 140 "kids" from the old neighbourhood, all feeling that same curiosity and excitement! We all experienced it like this... talking to someone that you don't recognize, trying to figure out who they were, then reading their name tag... and instantly all of a sudden you see them as a little kid looking back at you! All of the inevitable changes from age just instantly washing away. Of course there were those that literally haven't changed a bit... but most of us have! Someone pointed out - you know it's a great party when the food comes out and no one cares because they're having too much fun connecting. As another said, "It just warms my heart." AND about 6 or 8 of "the Moms" were there. What an amazing place they chose to raise us. We were incredibly lucky and blessed to have grown up in the early days of Sunshine Hills, and we have our Moms and Dads to thank! Watching "the Moms" sitting together, re-living their own memories of the Hills as young parents, guiding us rug rats to adulthood, was stunning! A friend of mine tending bar, said she had never been at an event where so many people were JUST SO HAPPY! It was, in a word EPIC! Today, the day after, seems so, I don't know how to describe it... empty? That's not the right word, because my heart is full and excited to explore the re-kindled friendships. Perhaps it's the sadness for those parents and kids that have already passed and couldn't be there. Or perhaps it was the folks that were too anxious to come, (and I know for a fact there were many that experienced that anxiety). And I can't blame them, emotions were really raw. Or perhaps it is just the fact that I am completely emotionally spent. Whatever the reason, it's all part of the amazing complexity of a beating heart. Thank you Mom and Dad for giving me the gift of Sunshine Hills... the gift that keeps on giving and never lacks an element of surprise! My friends, I implore you to find your neighbours from the old days... your search will be mightily rewarded! So much love! Peace <3