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On December 25, 1968, with my two toddlers, I landed on a remote airfield in the interior of Venezuela, on the outskirts of El Tigre.<\/p>\n

Gulf Oil had just hired my husband, Tony, to work in the Mene Grande Oil Camp. ,In the weeks before he started this job, we sold our cars, and home, located in a Dallas, Texas suburb.<\/p>\n

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Movers packed\u00a0 our belongings and sent them down to the seaport in Maracaibo, Venezuela by boat.\u00a0 We didn’t see our household goods for six months because of a shipping strike.<\/p>\n

We lived with nothing and no way to get anything.\u00a0 Think of the things you feel you might need:\u00a0 coffee pot, dishes, sheets, towels, chairs, tables, beds, sofas.<\/p>\n

We borrowed from the neighbors.<\/p>\n

I found myself living in a country where we lived in a community ringed by a high chain link fence near a remote village where I didn’t know the language.\u00a0 My spouse spoke Spanish but he was at work all day long.<\/p>\n

After a short time, the reality of my situation sank in.\u00a0 The oil camp where I lived was fifty miles from a grocery store in one direction and fifty miles from headhunters in the other.\u00a0 Ciudad Bolivar sat eighty miles in the third direction on the south bank of the Orinoco River.<\/p>\n

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I lived a life where a uniformed guard aiming a machine gun at me was the rule of the day as I went about my “que haceres” to the bank, bakery, gas station.\u00a0 Wherever I went throughout the day, I took Jennette and Michele with me.\u00a0 The goal was to never get separated from them.<\/p>\n

Lastly, there was no outside phone line.<\/p>\n

What a place to be when so much was happening in the rest of the world.\u00a0 Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated.\u00a0 Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated.\u00a0 Arlo Guthrie sang “Alice’s Restaurant”.\u00a0 The My Lai Massacre was the scandal of the Vietnam War.<\/p>\n

By the end of the first month, I found my anchor, my information line to reality.\u00a0 I read about current events and news every Tuesday evening when the previous Sunday’s New York Times was delivered to my door.\u00a0 As soon as the DC-3 landed about 4:30, we were all ready at our house. We loved greeting the paper delivery man as he dropped it off at our front door.\u00a0 Tony and I read the last Sunday’s paper from cover to cover.<\/p>\n

I had never been to New York City and it didn’t even matter.\u00a0 \u00a0The New York Times brought the world to me.<\/p>\n

And, I’ve been reading the New York Times regularly since then.\u00a0 I read it in San Francisco, Mexico City, San Antonio, Dallas, Monterey, CA., and Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n

Some places I got the paper daily.\u00a0 Others, it was weekly.\u00a0 Wherever I lived, I read every copy I got my hands on.<\/p>\n

No matter how the current events of my life unfolded, after reading the New York Times, I had a calmer, more realistic perspective.\u00a0 The New York Times brought news with the calming reality of facts most of my adult life.<\/p>\n

Even with all the drama of Biden versus Trump, stories in the New York Times are balanced, informative, real, and important.<\/p>\n

To The New York times, I send a thank you for doing what you do so well.<\/p>\n

To my readers, I sincerely hope and pray that you have found\u00a0 a way to stay anchored.\u00a0 Life is much easier that way.\u00a0\u00a0This anchor adds an extra layer of depth to my spiritual work.\u00a0 For me, this is essential.<\/p>\n

I am simply unable to live my life from day-to-day without including planetary events.\u00a0 I have friends, close friends, who are able to shut everything around them out.\u00a0 I cannot.\u00a0 I live on the planet earth and cannot ignore the reality of current events.<\/p>\n

Along with the Reiki and Reflexology, I’m a more balanced person.\u00a0 Current events are part of this circle of spiritual growth.\u00a0 Include the necessary elements for balance.<\/p>\n

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THANKS AGAIN FOR READING THIS BLOG THROUGHOUT THE YEARS.<\/p>\n

Thank you for reading this article.\u00a0 If you enjoyed reading it, please forward it to your friends, neighbors, relatives.\u00a0 Share it with your favorite social media networks.<\/p>\n

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Two Books to Read:<\/p>\n

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The Tarot is many things.\u00a0 One thing people don’t think about:\u00a0 It’s rooted in the wisdom of the past and relates to the current events of our lives in a very modern way.<\/p>\n

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Order them both at www.Thurmangreco.com.\u00a0 You can also order them through email at thurmangreo@gmail.<\/p>\n

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