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Your Life is Your Story, Issue #219 – Family December Reflections December 27, 2024 |
| Greetings "Your past is your story up to now. The future is the story yet to come. The present is where you live with that experience, your hopes and your dreams." 
Your Life is Your Story Newsletter December 27, 2024 Your Life is Your Story, Issue #219 – Family December Reflections From Tom Gilbert – Editor and Writer, www.your-life-your-story.com In this Issue: Opening remarks: As Years Go By Featured Article – Family December Reflections Featured Resource – Solo Build It! Half Off Opening Remarks: As Years Go ByWhen I was younger time seemed to move slower. If you are moving into your “golden” years maybe you feel the same. Years these days seem to fly by. We are rounding the bend and almost to the finish line for 2024. Do you look back? Do you look forward? I do. It is important, in my own opinion, to be present to each day and to live one day at a time. So I don’t dwell on the past or future. But I do consider it. You see, I hope I am learning and growing in this adventure we call life. My go-to for a yearly review are my journals. I write almost everyday so I record my thoughts and experiences. I find it quite useful. Whether you journal or not I hope you do give some consideration to your journey and your life story. Everyone has one! Thank you so much for being part of the Your Life Is Your Story community. Thanks to all our subscribers. I hope you enjoy this month’s issue. You are receiving this e-zine because you signed up for it or someone who is subscribed passed it along to you. If a friend DID forward this to you consider subscribing by visiting our signup page . Also, let me know what you’d like to see more of in this newsletter – simply reply to this email e-zine. – Tom Featured Article: Family December Reflections
I think it is likely that everyone has something in their family history that is interesting, unusual or significant. You just have to dig around to excavate these stories.
Storytelling is really what we are doing when we reveal parts of our life journey.One of the significant things about my family was how many of us were born around Christmas. Was there something in the water? Or just a lot of friskiness in March and April? Dad leads off this tale of Yuletide births. He was born on Christmas Day in 1928. Mom was born on the day after Christmas in 1930. I do wonder what that conversation was like when they were getting to know each other and it came up. So my parents married in 1951 and along came the firstborn, my sister Leslie. Want to take a guess on what day? Christmas Eve! So now you have a happy little family with a trio of Christmas birthdays, one after the other. I came next, three years later in 1955. Late in the year it was when people were shopping and preparing for the big holiday. I imagine my mother was both aghast and amused at the projected birthdate of December 25. Okay everyone, calm down! I didn’t come into the world on that joyous occasion. And I missed the mark on a streak of continuous birthdays. Can you imagine if it had been December 23 or 27? But it was close enough. My arrival was December 15.
Growing up there were a lot of combined birthday and Christmas cards and gifts. I can’t blame anyone. That’s a lot of gift giving and celebrations to deal with at one time. However, I can’t say there wasn’t a little resentment as a child. Continue reading this article at here. Featured Resource: Solo Build It! Half OffYou can build a website. Or you can build a Web Business! There are many reasons to be online with a proper presence. I’ve had Your Life Is Your Story as a life story site for over 20 years now. Yes, it has gone through evolutions, just as I have. Change is inevitable. And the online world has certainly gone through changes. Keeping up with those changes and being relevant these days requires having the right platform. Whether you are an entrepreneur or an author, I believe Solo Build It! can be that platform. And if you act really fast you can still get in on the extraordinary 50% off subscription! It’s hard to beat SBI!. Read all about it and know there is a guarantee to back it up.  .
There are many who promise online success, but Solo Build It! can back it up. Yes, it requires some effort on your part, as does anything worthwhile. I have found it well worth it and maybe you will too. Closing InformationThat’s it for this month’s issue. Thanks for reading. Here’s to telling your story. Do give it some serious consideration because I just know you’ve got a great story to tell! Be sure to see the Get Started section.Any comments, ideas or feedback is greatly appreciated. Just reply to this ‘zine and tell me what you think! Until next time, – keep your story alive! Tom Gilbert |
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