Women of the Fifties in their Fifties

Sunday February 3, 2013

This morning it dawned on me (before dawn, LoL) that women of the 1950s are darned amazing!  Why do I think so?  Get ready... you are no doubt part of these awesome observations!

• Our 30 years of post-20 year-old experiences have built a foundation that is stable and strong. We handle what that life brings our way. We just do.
• Our skin has thickened while our hearts have opened.
• Our capacity for loving, enduring, supporting, and challenging the status quo is off the charts and making a difference professionally, in our communities, and personally!

We are charting new territory as our families and friends shift and change, grow and fade away.  Some are clear with purpose and focus; others search for the same.  We are there for each other.  We are there caring for elders and mentoring the youth.  We are taking care of our selves.  This is what matters.

Noteworthy callouts...

LJ - active military including three overseas deployments to Germany & Afghanistan and earned a Master's - all of this post fifty.

GDM - rising way above key life challenges (her own) while (!!!) always there for others with a seemingly endless amount of compassion and comportment for those in need.

PT - single mom working 2-3 nursing jobs while keeping her son her #1 priority and successfully transitioning to empty nest as he launches his life in college & ROTC program.

JJ - successfully and with diligence navigates her business through the most difficult economic times while redefining her family with a husband, son to college, grandbabies!

DS - flourishing in career, personal health, and empty nesting.

PM - finding a way to support eldercare, working, and all the changes in kids' lives that directly or indirectly include "mom" (of which she, and all the above, are amazing)

Women of every decade are to be admired!  I might just be a bit partial to we women of the fifties.

Also in the fifties...

• NASA was founded.
• Peanuts was published.
• First organ transplant.
• First credit card.
• DNA discovered.
• Rosa Parks refuses back of the bus.
• Lego blocks.
• Sound of Music opens.
• Castro becomes Cuba's leader.
• The PEACE Symbol created.
• Car seat belts.
• Disneyland opens.

A darned productive decade!  ENJOY your accomplishments, loves, and passions.  Laugh lots. 
Thanks for reading!  Please share your thoughts.