Acceptance, by Betsy

These words represent thoughts that have occurred to me over the past couple of weeks—mostly while on our recent trip to Nicaragua.

Acceptance is growing old and embracing it (being literally led by the hand so to speak through airports, hotels, car rentals, etc. by children and grand child, I realized that this is okay. I can embrace this)

Acceptance is greeting every new day with gratitude, enthusiasm, and joy

Acceptance is knowing when to keep your mouth shut

Acceptance is understanding your shortcomings and imperfections and still loving yourself

Acceptance is acknowledging when you are wrong

Acceptance is accepting things you don’t want to accept

Acceptance is putting words from the heart to paper

This is not to say I don’t have a long list of things that I do not  care to accept but that will have to wait for another day.

© 21 Dec 2015 

About the Author 

Betsy has been active in the GLBT community including PFLAG, the Denver Women’s Chorus, OLOC (Old Lesbians Organizing for Change), and the GLBT Community Center. She has been retired from the human services field for 20 years. Since her retirement, her major activities have included tennis, camping, traveling, teaching skiing as a volunteer instructor with the National Sports Center for the Disabled, reading, writing, and learning. Betsy came out as a lesbian after 25 years of marriage. She has a close relationship with her three children and four grandchildren. Betsy says her greatest and most meaningful enjoyment comes from sharing her life with her partner of 30 years, Gillian Edwards.