Our theme for this year is Connect, Collaborate, Share.
One of my favorite memories, of a time when I connected with someone, took place last summer in Island Park, which is near Yellowstone. My daughter Samantha and I bought us each a two-person raft. We went to one of our favorite places in the world, Wade Lake, Montana. We packed a lunch, blew up our rafts, tied them together and just floated on the lake for several hours. We talked and we were silent. She shared her dreams, her heartbreak and her happiness with me on that lake, in our rafts, that were hooked together.
Share a memory of a time you connected or collaborated with someone.
Lovely, story, Julie. I have a daughter and so can appreciate how important and beautiful such a moment of connecting would be...and to connect with one's mom is beautiful.
ReplyDeleteI should have shared this connection. This spring, I connected with a girl from my high school graduating class from Tehachapi, California. I'd seen her on another friend's Facebook post and we friended. She then posted that she was applying for library jobs in New York. She wanted interview suggestions. She and I ended up having a lot of chats about being a librarian, both through Facebook and by phone. I love that I was able to reconnect with her in a meaningful way. She loved my suggestions. She still hasn't gotten a job but she keeps working at it. She also lived here in Utah for awhile. I hope to see her sometime when she comes to visit her husband's family.
I loved your story too. Something about connecting with daughters. I remember a rather hectic and hurried drive to San Francisco to get my daughter a biometric visa to go to school in Paris for a semester. It was just her and me. We managed to make San Francisco, slide into the consulate, get the visa and make it back to SLC in 36 hours. It was a lot of time in the car together, but we had a great time.
ReplyDeleteMany years ago, when I was hired as the librarian at Backman, I replaced a librarian named Jeanene Prince. I never did meet Jeanene until several months into the school year when we sat by each other at some district meeting. But I connected with Jeanene from the "get go"--from my very first day at Backman--because she left notes and more notes and more notes stuck on things all over the library. There were notes on the equipment, notes on tables, notes on the circ computer, notes on cabinet doors, notes everywhere. I could not have asked for a better or nicer person to replace! I was a pretty clueless librarian, and her notes and the organized way that she left everything for me helped ease my angst. Julie Bentley still had to explain to me what some of the notes meant :-) ..... but I have always remembered that early connection with Jeanene.
ReplyDeleteHi Jean and All...I have a similar story about my daughter needing her passport to travel to Chile !! We booked a flight to LA and also a hotel in West Hollywood. Our trip was also a whirlwind trip - less than 24 hours! WOW - what mothers will do for their kids and their success:)
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