Losing My Father, and a Life Partner

That’s a difficult one because my highs and lows are personal things. The high last year it would have been flying with all of my seven brothers and sisters to go back east for my dad’s 90th birthday, two months ahead of his birthday, just to get everybody back there because that’s when they could go. That was basically the last time everybody was together with him before his death. Then going back and bringing him out here to live the last two months of his life. So, my highs would be that. I am very proactive about knowing what needs to be done and doing that.

My lows would be when people don’t understand my motives. I tend to – sometimes maybe when I come out a little bit strong with people.

So, highs and lows are more sort of personal things for me rather than any actual achievements because I think of things I do – it would be a little bit self aggrandizing. I am very proud of some of the things I have achieved financially in real estate but then when I look at those it’s just listening to what people tell me. I mean, there have been challenges in my life.

A big challenge was when the airline I worked for went bankrupt. What’s that all about? This whole chapter is coming to an end.

Again, that was almost – like the Doug death. I mean that last sort of period of his life I was convinced I was going to save him and it was only when I just sort of let go and I realized that this was his process not mine that I got out of the way.

So, I think highs and lows, I guess some people would say the day they got married. For me my highs and lows are just staying conscious enough to sort of experience what life brings my way and when it’s a low period to experience that as well and to experience that just sort of consciously as a high period.