Theme 13 of 13

Reflections & Wisdom

What they have come to believe and pass on.

15 from Mum 1 from Dad
Mum

Do you believe in a higher power?

I’ve had a bit of time to think about this one, which hasn’t really made it any clearer …… A higher power? if we are talking about ’God’…

Dad

What would you consider your motto?

Do unto others as you would have done unto you This is not really a motto but a saying that has been around for thousands of years. In…

Mum

What about being a child do you miss the most?

I can't say as there is anything that I really miss. Now that we are retired, to wake up in the morning and have a whole day ahead,…

Mum

What has made your faith stronger?

Gosh, these questions get harder.............does 'faith' mean a belief in or affiliation to an organized religion of some sort? I was brought up to 'believe' in the same…

Mum

What have been some of your lifes greatest surprises?

Life is a series of surprises, isn't it?...so it is hard to pick the 'greatest', and by and large I am not someone who looks forward to 'surprises',…

Mum

What have you changed your mind about over the years?

Two important things.........how you think about yourself does not depend on what other people think about you. and....what you think about other people when you first meet is…

Mum

What is one of the greatest physical challenges you have ever had to go through what gave you?

For any woman I think the biggest physical challenge she will ever face is that of childbirth. No matter how straightforward the actual event is in obstetrical terms…

Mum

What is the longest project you have ever worked on?

I think my ‘magnum opus’, the book we have just published would have to take the prize for this. Jim had worked on the history of his family…

Mum

What is your best advice when it comes to work?

Oh, what a question to someone who never listens to her own advice........ The standard response is to leave work at work... but that is not easy if…

Mum

What things are you proudest of in your life?

Material possessions, personal achievements? There is no contest - I am ( we are) for sure proudest of the adults our kids have become and the grandchildren we…

Mum

What were you like when you were 40?

I was 40 in 1986 - Expo year in Vancouver where we lived, an amazing summer that lasted from May through until November. Jennie was 4 and in…

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What were you like when you were 50?

Well, you ‘kids’ were 20, 18,17 and 14 when I was 50. I wonder if you remember what YOU were doing in 1996? I was working full time…

Mum

Whats a small decision you made that ended up having a big impact on your life

In Edinburgh 1968 in the flat we shared while both working at the Western General Hospital as newly graduated physiotherapists, Ann Leitch said to me over dinner one…

Mum

Who has been one of the most important people in your life can you tell me about him or her?

I am going to change this question around a bit…….as it is difficult to pick one single person who has been most important in my life - there…

Mum

Who inspires you?

Inspiration.. OK, back to the dictionary definition….. 'the process of being mentally stimulated to do or feel something, especially to do something creative.’ That doesn’t help me a…

Mum

Who is the wisest person youve known what have you learned from them?

If you are talking about the person whose values you share or shared the most, in relation to your own, I think for me it would have to…

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