Gayle and I don’t often make an issue of our age difference.  This time we did, and didn’t even realize it for quite a while.  The lesson we both learned was that there are times when the words we use can have significant, unintentional age-gap implications.

My dad died at 95 years of age.  Until he broke his hip he remained active.  He and I used to talk about how my siblings would tell him to not do something because he was “too old.”  I remember mom yelling at him to get off the roof when he was in his seventies.  I never felt that way about him. He never seemed “too old” to me.  I knew he was living as he had always lived – with personal freedom.  One picture that will always be in my mind is of him climbing over an old wooden pasture gate to get to his favorite fishing hole.  I was on my way to get the gate key but he had no interest in waiting.  I remember we were visiting to celebrate his 90th birthday.  90 and still climbing over farm gates!  What a guy!  I was so proud of him.

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On MayDececmberSecrets.Com, Maya has a another meaning.  She isn’t an illusion, but she does bring a new and welcome perspective to our site.  Her voice is youthful yet filled with wisdom beyond her years.  She’s our first guest blogger.
Below, she tells the story of our serendipitous first meeting.  Her premier post will be coming your way tomorrow.  As a thriving age gap couple, we have had many happy run-ins with providence.  When you start out your relationship with the deck theoretically stacked against you,  you need to learn to trust “coincidences” and even follow them.  Gayle has more to say about our year of serendipity and will be blogging about it later in the week.

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