{"id":9244,"date":"2016-03-11T00:05:33","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T06:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/?p=9244"},"modified":"2016-03-06T17:56:01","modified_gmt":"2016-03-06T23:56:01","slug":"life-is-good-when-for-this-fantastic-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/life-is-good-when-for-this-fantastic-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Life Is Good When&#8230;for this Fantastic Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/shapeimage_1-386.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9246\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9246 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/shapeimage_1-386.png\" alt=\"A close relationship with extended family members shows the joy that grows in the sharing of our ordinary days.\" width=\"500\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/shapeimage_1-386.png 500w, https:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/shapeimage_1-386-300x172.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><em>An enduring joy of my life has been close relationships with many of my cousins. Thankfully, my daughter has similar relationships with several of her cousins\u00a0 and second cousins (Right to left: Lara, Tessa, Anne, Caitlyn, and Lauren). Both the post and the picture make me grateful that these young ladies have one another in their ordinary, everyday lives on this Fantastic Friday.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Life Is Good When&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For the past month and a half, my cousin has been forwarding emails from her daughter, Lara, who is studying in Spain this semester. Lara is four days older than my daughter, and like Anne, she\u2019s a junior in college.<\/p>\n<p>Reading Lara\u2019s adventures has been pure delight. She\u2019s learned to live with cold showers, cook with butane fuel and purchase new fuel when the tank runs dry. She\u2019s been befriended by a family of Bolivian immigrants, eats weekend meals and goes to church with them, and bakes them banana bread. She\u2019s climbed mountains, ridden trains, taken taxies, and to make the most of this opportunity, forces herself to speak Spanish instead of English to fellow students to improve her language skills.<\/p>\n<p>The wisdom of a comment she made in a recent email makes me smile whenever it comes to mind. After Lara describing a busy weekend with the Bolivian family, washing laundry and cooking meals together, she said this. \u201cYou know life is good when doing mundane, everyday activities is nice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her insight delighted but didn\u2019t surprise me. She\u2019s part of the pack of girl cousins (Anne, my brother\u2019s two girls, Lara and two of her cousins) who were born in a span of four years. They spend as much time as possible crammed together like puppies, playing games, talking, sharing clothes, writing stories. When they aren\u2019t together in body, they connect on Facebook, joyfully sharing their \u201cmundane, everyday activities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t have a crystal ball. I can\u2019t predict the joys and sorrows in Lara\u2019s future or those of her pack of puppy cousins. But these young women already know what Dorothy had to learn over the rainbow and what many people spend their whole life never learn: life\u2019s greatest pleasures are the small things, the ordinary days, and the people who experience them. They have what they need to appreciate the joys and weather the sorrows sure to come.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re ready to face the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An enduring joy of my life has been close relationships with many of my cousins. Thankfully, my daughter has similar relationships with several of her cousins\u00a0 and second cousins (Right to left: Lara, Tessa, Anne, Caitlyn, and Lauren). 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