A lovely letter and a book for Christmas

A girlfriend sent me an interesting looking book for a Christmas gift. I’ve only read the first chapter so far and I’m looking forward to getting out in the back tomorrow, under the big bush-lemon tree, and knocking off at least half of it.

Girl Group Confidential: The Ultimate Guide to Starting, Running and Enjoying Your Own Womens’ Group

I’m hoping this will be useful for the Red Hat Chapter I try to organise.

With the book came a lovely letter and I would really like you to see what she wrote about menopause :

This is a time when we seek to re-educate ourelves, or move into a new career. It is a time to re-evaluate relationships in our lives. In this time we have come to acknowledge our strengths and rely on them. We also are familiar with our weaknesses and are more willing to work with and change them into new resources in our lives.

Transitions are as natural as breathing or walking from one room to the next. Each one brings us to a new place in our evolution and growth. Therefore menopause brings a woman into the most powerful time in her life, free from worries of pregnancy and all the responsibilities which bringing a new life into being entails

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I’ll try and keep that in mind the next time I want to kill a shop assistant.