{"id":774,"date":"2015-06-26T15:22:08","date_gmt":"2015-06-26T21:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theagingofaquarius.com\/dw_blog\/?p=774"},"modified":"2022-02-27T07:17:27","modified_gmt":"2022-02-27T13:17:27","slug":"a-postcard-to-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theagingofaquarius.com\/dw_blog\/a-postcard-to-ireland\/","title":{"rendered":"A postcard to Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just took my wife of 27 years to Dallas-Ft. Worth International Airport and sent her on her way.<\/p>\n

Carolann Conley is going home for the first time.<\/p>\n

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I’ve always called her Feisty One. Her Irish roots are strong and obvious. She dances with joyous abandon, lives in the moment, loves ferociously, laughs like a free angel and cries only for puppies and children, never for herself.<\/p>\n

\"Carolann<\/p>\n

Her emerald eyes sparkle one minute and then cloud over the next, with the dangerous darkness of a storm borne of the cold Irish Sea.<\/p>\n

She’s a handful, for sure, but not this week. She’s on her own now, to find her ancestral roots in the green hills of her old country.
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\n<\/a>I expect Carolann to return to me with breathless stories of her Ireland and a heart filled with discovery.<\/p>\n

This is how we grow into ourselves and learn to appreciate the thousands of lives before ours that loved us into existence.<\/p>\n

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