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FROM THE PUBLISHER: Gone days

By Patrick Wood
Publisher

Dear Reader,

While I was exercising this morning, I wondered what it would be like if each of us could travel back in time
to the most important times of our life.

Where would we go? Who or what would we want to see again? And what would we avoid?

Some of us would go back to those shining moments that changed our lives forever – the holy instant in which they said “I do” to the partner of their dreams, that blissful walk across the stage to receive a diploma and a handshake congratulating one for four (or five, or six) years of effort in the halls of academia, the mystical experience of welcoming new life into our family at the birth of a child.

And for others of us, it would be those last few moments of saying goodbye to a beloved parent or other loved one, as they prepared for their departure from this life to eternity, or that heartbreaking moment when we realize that a relationship that started with hope is now ending.

I imagine many of us would want to relive these events with a heightened sense of awareness of being there.

So often we fail to fully appreciate these great moments because we are looking ahead to what comes next, or distracted by some shiny object at the side of the path.

We all have experiences that affected us profoundly, that shaped us to be the people we are today. Where
would you go? Who or what would you want to see again?

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