Angels in Shipwrecks - Kaitlin Murphy
Angels in Shipwrecks: Place, Politic and Spirit in Modern Life

March 2012

To My Forties (From My Thirties, With Love)

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In the months before I turned 40, I felt little of the angst I’d heard was supposed to come with entering mid-life. I had a lot to be grateful for, including the opportunity and ability to do work I enjoy, the countless faces and kinds of love I’d been shown over the years, and the expectation of more good things to come.   

Then, a week before the big day, I remembered how my childhood self had viewed this decade. In her eyes, forty was for people who were done growing up, for parents who delivered clear rules to live by and spent the majority of their time driving kids to softball, track and field hockey practice.
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