Lori Hoffer :: HONORING YOUR WISDOM FROM BIRTH
When I was five years old, my parents took me and my sisters for a night out at the Sea Horse Restaurant while on vacation at the beach. Memory tells me this particular visit was either on or right around my fifth birthday and that we were there with family friends who introduced us to this beach town. As kids of the 70s, it wasn’t uncommon for us to join our parents at “fancy” restaurants and lounges where we’d order off the adult menu, drink Shirley Temples, listen to lounge acts, be dragged on the dance floor, and stay out late enough that eventually I’d fall asleep on the table while they continued celebrating life. On this particular evening, my dad asked me if I’d dance with him. I was a painfully shy kid, and
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