{"id":2094,"date":"2009-05-12T01:16:52","date_gmt":"2009-05-12T01:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jolene-test.com.bishopcompsol.com\/?p=2094"},"modified":"2009-05-12T01:16:52","modified_gmt":"2009-05-12T01:16:52","slug":"colorado-here-i-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/colorado-here-i-come\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado, Here I Come!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/shapeimage_1-10131.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2095\" title=\"shapeimage_1-10\" src=\"http:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/shapeimage_1-10131-297x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"297\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/shapeimage_1-10131-297x300.png 297w, https:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/shapeimage_1-10131.png 420w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 297px) 100vw, 297px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow, I\u2019m driving to Colorado for a writers\u2019 conference. It\u2019s my first overnight visit in the Rocky Mountains since my Uncle and Aunt Donna took my brother (age 7) and me (age 10) and their daughters (ages 7, 6, and 4) on their annual family camping trip. (No need to feel sorry for my sister &#8211; she went with them a year to before all the way to California.) Because of my father\u2019s wheelchair, our family didn\u2019t go on camping trips. We didn\u2019t take annual summer vacations. Going to the Rockies was an experience I would never have had except for the generosity of my dear uncle and aunt.<\/p>\n<p>The conference is at the YMCA of the Rockies in Estes Park, and I\u2019m thinking the sleeping arrangements will be slightly less glamourous than those on our camping trip. For that excursion, Jim and Donna had purchased a TeePee pop-up camper, quite an extravagance in our family\u2019s 1960s penny-pinching days. We five women slept in the camper and pretty much filled all the beds. \u201cUs men,\u201d Uncle Jim boomed, \u201cwill sleep in the trunk of the car.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJohn gets all the luck,\u201d I thought every night, as my little brother announced, \u201cIt\u2019s time for us men to go to bed,\u201d and swaggered off to the trunk with Jim. It\u2019s taken me years to get over being miffed at the men, but this trip to Estes Park might take care of it.<\/p>\n<p>I hope the trip takes care of some other things, too. At the conference, I will work with a national publicist. Hopefully, she can show me how to get <em>A Different Dream for My Child: Meditations for Parents or Critically or Chronically Ill Children<\/em>, which was inspired my son\u2019s condition, into the hands of parents who need it. If that happens, much of the credit goes to <a title=\"http:\/\/themanbehindthewords.com\/\" href=\"http:\/\/themanbehindthewords.com\/\">Cec Murphey<\/a>, the\u00a0 author who helped Don Piper write the best-selling Ninety Minutes in Heaven. Cec uses the royalties from that book to fund scholarships so new writers can attend conferences.<\/p>\n<p>Someday I\u2019d like to introduce my Uncle Jim to Cec Murphey. I\u2019d like to tell them how their generosity taught me to move beyond my father\u2019s illness and my son\u2019s health condition and be generous to others. I want them to know they made a difference, not only in my life but also in the lives of people we don\u2019t even know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow, I\u2019m driving to Colorado for a writers\u2019 conference. 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