[How parents react can vary dramatically.] Some experience joy, fulfillment, and relief, ... They may see a new world of opportunity opening up before them. They are now free to focus on their own needs. They are free to do things they may not have been able to do for the past 18 years. Other parents will feel loneliness and anxiety – the pain of loss and the anxiety of letting go. They may find themselves asking: 'My work is done. Now what?' Or, 'What is my purpose in life?' |
[The feelings that arise when the last child leaves home can affect each individual parent, a couple's marriage, and how the parents interact with the child who has recently left home, Burns says. How parents react can vary dramatically.] Some experience joy, fulfillment, and relief, ... They may see a new world of opportunity opening up before them. They are now free to focus on their own needs. They are free to do things they may not have been able to do for the past 18 years. Other parents will feel loneliness and anxiety - the pain of loss and the anxiety of letting go. They may find themselves asking: 'My work is done. Now what?' Or, 'What is my purpose in life?' |
Although I was confident of where the fire came from, I called in the fire marshal because of remarks made about the fire department, |
Demand for coal is still exceeding the supply, ... It's cheap and very reliable. |
I am sure that the little dog of Mrs. Williams would have been a snack for him. They have been known to eat small mammals. |
I think Arnold is a big phony. I think it's horrible what he is trying to do to our California economy. |
I think the publicly traded companies will be very careful making acquisitions in the future and concentrate on operations versus being the largest. Currently, asking prices are too high relative to what publicly-traded companies are willing to pay. |
Otherwise, it would have been five or six minutes, |
Station 4 had a one-minute response, ... That house would not have withstood five minutes of free burning. We would have lost the roof and the motor home, and had damage to neighboring houses. |
The best line of defense for humans and alligators is to just let the alligator have distance, |
The bottom line is, don't order over the Internet. Go to your doctor, get a prescription and then get it from a pharmacy. |
The confidence is there having seen a strong first quarter. |
The idea is to get all of this information together and then look at it from a weak-link-in-the-chain-of-preparedness perspective. If you look at how many people need shelter and then you look at potential shelters to see if they will, in fact, fail ... you can find the weak link and fix it. |
The supply chain that we have been building and have in place now has a capacity that is well in excess of the sum total of government orders that we've received to date. If governments feel the need, we stand ready to take their orders. There should be no holding back through the belief that we do not have enough supply. |
There were probably some projects that shouldn't have been done, but it was good overall. Our infrastructure was in bad shape. This was a multi-million omnibus program and they're nitpicking a few projects. |