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A little inspiration goes a long way sometimes, to help one journey through ages and stages of one's life. What used to be a given in terms of a woman having her own baby, nursing or doing much of the care with a partner or alone, and sending the youngster off to daycare or a nursery school or to be cared for with others who can mostly talk and use the potty has largely shifted.

More women plan pregnancies that work with their fertility, their work, their partner (actually optional for many with about 15K thousand women choosing to become single moms from the get-go with in vitro, or maybe

 As Hannukah comes to a close, which conveys the Jewish experience of oil burning for 8 nights when there was only 'enough for one night' and is a sign of the God's grace and miracles, a group of school children and adults were enchanted by the Grumbling Gryphons theatre troupe who acted out two trickster tales with inspiring messages:

Do not let anyone steal your light--whether the sun, moon and stars (and by association, clean air, water, and way to live and provide for your family and others on our small singular planet) or your inner light of free will, respect and self-preservation,

Sadly I learned of one of the rare cases of a mother having the life of the father of their child ended on a Forensic Files show on TV. The 38-year-old was desribed at an excellent pediatrician and one of the possible motivations was for the mother to have sole custody as well as a $500 thousand life insurance policy (which she was using $200 thousand for to pay off two hit men.) Thankfully the forensic information linking the two hit men to the scene was available ( a sneaker print on tile, some blood and hair samples on a sweat shirt that was left in a hotel room along with the sneakers.

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