Life between start and stop

These are the good years , I’ve written. These are the years we have with our health, with our children, with our friends even in short bursts . We are grown, we are working on being the people we meant to be, and we have, still, some time. It’s a beautiful phase, and it reminds me that things do not last. Living abroad is a constant reminder. Much of our lives exists at the edges of systems, in…