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PUBLIC NOTICE
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FOR JOSEPHINE COUNTY
PROBATE DEPARTMENT
In the Matter of the Estate of :
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Case No 06-P-0045
NOTICE TO INTERESTED PERSONS
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the under-
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torney at Law, Davis, Adams, Freudenberg,
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Thursday,
March 9, 2006, be-
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Office,
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Road, Grants Pass,
Josephine
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Thursday, March 9,
2006, beginning at
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Three Rivers School
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New Hope Road,
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2006, beginning at
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Moms love job, but need independence
By OLIVIA TAYLOR-YOUNG
IVN Correspondent
Because Illinois Valley is slated to be-
come a haven for retirees, I thought an article
I read not long ago might provoke some in-
teresting discussion.
Written by a young-mom columnist who
focuses on family issues, it delved into com-
plexities of parent/adult-child relationships,
especially when parents pursue their own
interests or move away from where adult
kids reside, or both.
The conclusion was that grown kids
want the freedom to lead their own lives and
make their own decisions. Nothing new
there; in fact, isn't that the natural order of
things? On the other hand, a surprising num-
ber of these autonomy-minded adults don’t
want their parents moving to Oregon or any-
where else. They want them close at hand.
The columnist cited many reasons aside
from love -- unresolved childhood issues,
emotional support, financial help, baby-
sitting privileges, etc. But there was one re-
curring theme, and the quote that summed it
up gave me chills.
It came from a 30-something mother of
two who frankly told her interviewer, “I
don’t want my mother to have a life. She’s
my mom!”
The chills also inspired me. As an au-
thor, I decided to take literary license, fiction-
alize the 30-something whiner as my daugh-
ter and respond to her (and her like-minded
contemporaries) in the form of a letter.
* * *
Dearest Imaginary Daughter: I’m not sure
if I should be appalled or wonder what went
wrong. Or both.
But, since you’re illusory anyway, I’ll just
tell you what I think: Because I’m the
mommy, that’s why!
But being a mommy doesn’t mean I’m a
one-dimensional cardboard cut-out with
“How-Can-I-Serve-You?” written all over
me. I have my own history, challenges, pas-
sions, talents, sensuality, ideas and interests. I
also have a full plate of responsibilities, of
which, even when you were tiny, you were a
very important one, but not the only one!
When you were born, I knew joy I could
never have imagined and vowed to always
do right by you; yet somehow we’ve gotten
off track. Between your first breath and
adulthood, either I failed to convey, or you
failed to heed, the message that, much as I
may love and/or need you, and vice versa, we
are two separate people.
Daughter, life is filled with necessary
losses. One is every parent’s responsibility to
accept that separateness and allow their chil-
dren to grow and go. Remember, I Corin-
thians 9:11? “When I was a child, I spake as
a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a
child: but when I became a man, I put away
childish things.”
Part of putting away childish things
means that, in their role of Mommy and
Daddy, your parents grow out of a job.
This “unemployment” has nothing to do
with loving you, or caring about your welfare
or wanting to be part of your life. It does
mean we need to differentiate between times
of life and types of need that our interactions
must morph from parent/child to adult-to-
adult and become a two-way street.
When you were little, I would have
thrown myself in front of an oncoming train
to protect you. I’d do that today. The differ-
ence is, today I can’t and shouldn't always be
with you; so I hope I’ve taught you the skills
to avoid the tracks or how to jump off if you
accidentally wander there.
Emotionally, financially or otherwise,
our relationship cannot be enacted by past
standards. You are no longer a toddler or a
teen. Of course I’ll lend a hand in a crisis;
nobody wants to see their kids set up house-
keeping in a cardboard box.
At the same time, both of us have to
fairly assess where personal responsibility on
my part ends and personal responsibility on
your part begins. Unlike Hallmark, I’m not
the gift that keeps on giving. And unlike Pe-
ter Pan, you cannot remain a child forever.
I do want to freely give you gifts as well
as my time; but please, never mistake my
willingness to give with your “right” to de-
mand or my decision not to give as a meas-
ure of our relationship.
Sure, we both know about parents who,
God help them, accede to their child’s every
demand, regardless of age. We also know
about parents who use gifts, dollars and guilt
trips to assuage their own guilt or control
every aspect of their adult-kid’s lives.
But rather than have you spend years
with a therapist learning to spit in my eye, I
hope I’ve given you the most important gifts
of all: the ability to stand on your own two
feet, follow your own dreams, make your
own decisions and lead your own life.
Which brings me back to the original
premise of this letter. I intend to lead my life,
too; so please relinquish your need for
Mommy and wish me well instead. Because:
If I want to go to law school, I will. If I
want to take up sky-diving, I’ll do that too. If
I want to move to another state, I intend to go
where my retirement takes me.
And if I want to “see the pyramids along
the Nile or watch a sunset on a tropic isle,”
I’ll send you a postcard!
With love, your Mom.
A stirring message from the e-mail bag
I just realized that while children are
dogs -- loyal and affectionate -- teen-agers
are cats.
It’s so easy to be a dog owner. You feed
it, train it, boss it around. It puts its head on
your knee and gazes at you as if you were a
Rembrandt painting.
It bounds indoors with enthusiasm when
you call it.
Then around age 13, your adoring little
puppy turns into a big old cat. When you tell
it to come inside, it looks amazed, as if won-
dering who died and made you emperor. In-
stead of dogging your doorstep, it disappears.
You won’t see it again until it gets hun-
gry. Then it pauses on its sprint through the
kitchen long enough to turn up its nose at
whatever you’re serving. When you reach
out to ruffle its head, in that old affectionate
gesture, it twists away,then gives you a blank
stare, as if trying to remember where it has
seen you before.
You, not realizing that the dog is now a
cat, think something must be desperately
wrong with it. It seems so antisocial, so dis-
tant, sort of depressed. It won’t go on family
outings. Since you’re the one who raised it,
taught it to fetch and stay and sit on com-
mand, you assume that you did something
wrong.
Flooded with guilt and fear, you redou-
ble your efforts to make your pet behave.
Only now you’re dealing with a cat, so
everything that worked before now produces
the opposite of the desired result. Call it and
it runs away. Tell it to sit and it jumps on the
counter.
The more you go toward it, wringing
your hands, the more it moves away.
Instead of continuing to act like a dog
owner, you can learn to behave like a cat
owner. Put a dish of food near the door and
let it come to you.
But remember that a cat needs your help
and your affection too. Sit still and it will
come, seeking that warm, comforting lap it
has not entirely forgotten. Be there to open
the door for it.
One day your grown-up child will walk
into the kitchen, give you a big kiss and say,
“You’ve been on your feet all day. Let me
get those dishes for you.”
Then you’ll realize that your cat is a dog
again.
Sports Challenge
A Look Back
1. Which point value counts when an
arrow cuts two colors of an archery target?
2. Who beat Denmark 47-0 at the 1949
world hockey championships?
3. What is the fastest stroke in swim-
ming?
4. Whom did Sonny Liston succeed as
world heavyweight boxing champion?
5. What were Babe Ruth’s Christian
names?
6. What sport features jammers break-
ing out of the pack?
7. What is the score of a forfeited base-
ball game?
8. What’s a turkey in bowling?
9. What is the prize money in a horse
race or a boxing match called?
10. How many Olympic Games were
cancelled because of World War I?
Answers
On March 6, 1836, the siege of the
Alamo ended with the entire garrison being
killed ... March 6, 1857, the Supreme
Court issued the Dred Scott decision, hold-
ing that slaves did not become free in a
free state, Congress could not ban slavery
from a territory, and Blacks could not be
citizens ... March 7, 1876, Alexander Gra-
ham Bell patented the telephone ... March
12, 1912, the American Girl Guides was
founded; the name was changed the next
year to Girl Scouts ... March 9, 1933, Con-
gress began its special “100 days” session,
working on President Franklin Roosevelt’s
“New Deal” ... March 11, 1941, the Lend-
Lease Act was signed, providing $7 billion
in military credits for Britain ... March 12,
1947, President Truman asked Congress
for financial and military aid for Greece
and Turkey to help combat Communist
subversion (Truman Doctrine) ... March
12, 1956, massive resistance to the Su-
preme Court’s desegregation rulings was
called for by 101 Southern congressmen ...
1. The higher; 2. Canada; 3. The freestyle or
front crawl; 4. Floyd Patterson; 5. George Herman;
6. Roller derby; 7. 9-0; 8. Three consecutive strikes;
9. The purse; 10. One
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