EVERYTHING CHANGES. ALWAYS.
EVERYTHING CHANGES. ALWAYS.
While preparing for a presentation, I sit on a bench along the beautiful Sandcreek in Sandpoint, Idaho.
Looking up I notice that the bank on the other side of the creek is forever changed. Construction has begun for a new bypass.
It took the city 60 years to finally approve it, but here it is. Having lived here for a good many of those years, I experienced the idea of the bypass as a sort of a myth–the town joke. It took 60 years, but everything changes. Always.
My presentation is at the court house to parents mandated to hear a workshop on how divorce impacts kids. Seeing Sandcreek torn up makes me think of the families. The hope is that divorce will make things better in the end. Just like with the new highway.
Changes are always happening with intact families, too. Kids grow. Aging parents move in. Babies are born….
With divorce the family structure changes, the marriage partnership is over, people live in different places, but they are still a family. Hopefully, divorce results in the family getting to a happy “new normal” with their new configuration. And then, still, vetting changes.