"The Only Pressure You Feel is the Pressure You Put on Yourself"
This sage advice is courtesy of my friend, Patty Carney-Bradley. We had lunch yesterday, then toured the exhibits at the Dali Museum in St. Petersburg. While I enjoyed the museum and certainly learned a whole lot more about Salvador Dali and surrealism (still has a tendency to give me a migraine), I mostly enjoyed spending time with Patty. In previous lives, we taught together at the Edina Family Center as Licensed Parent Educators. Those were synergistic years; speaking for myself, I learned a great deal about the value of being introspective, then accepting the challenge to change. Much of this had to do with my interactions and friendships with the women I worked with. Some of us are now Facebook friends (you know who you are), allowing us to keep up with, in particular, the children who have morphed into adults. Such a gift to have that richness serving as a foundation for the later years. Thank you. Patty and her husband are pretty m...