60 Seconds for Thoughts on Thursday: What Do You Get When You Open the Unwanted Gift?

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Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds for Thoughts on Thursday and your host, Diane Wyzga.

I can count on one hand the number of gifts my grandmother chose to accept from her 7 grandchildren. Something was always wrong; or, if not wrong then just not right. She’d had a very tough life and maybe the idea of being shown expressions of love was too much for her, felt foreign, perhaps scary.

I was thinking of her the other day in a moment of reverie recalling gifts I’ve received, an overwhelming abundance of gifts, the ones I couldn’t wait to unwrap. Gifts of prosperity, health, purpose, friendship, adventure, support, and more.

And then there were the gifts of disappointment, loss, betrayal, failure, grief, and defeat. Gifts I preferred to “Return to Sender – Address Unknown” but there they were. Unwrap them I did. Over time. Not all at once. Some took years as I picked away at the tattered, faded ribbons.

What did I get? That, as they say, is a story for another time.

Question: Meanwhile, what have you discovered when you unwrapped the unwanted gift?

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Podcaster: Diane F Wyzga & Quarter Moon Story Arts

Music: Mer’s Waltz from Crossing the Waters by Steve Schuch & Night Heron Music

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