The End of an Era. @ConexionFlorida

`This is the article written for the December 2025 edition of Conexion.

With mixed emotions BB shares this one, but it is perfecto for this time of endings & beginnings...

HolaHolaHola Beautifuls!

Time to say Adios to this year and to get ready for the next. Hopefully learning from the past to bring freshness and freedom to the future. “Should Auld acquaintance be forgot”?  JU SO FONII !! Beautifuls, that’s part of life’s pleasures and ways. To remember with fondness, sometimes with cuidado, but to remember life’s moments. We remember momentos of la vida, both bueno and malo, to smile, to learn, to grow, to know. The birth of a loved one, the death of a loved one. The welcomes and the Goodbyes. Momentos of pleasure,  moments of pain. This is life, this is inevitable, this is how we must live, this is how we continue.

And so it is with this newspaper. December 2025 marks the last paper, handheld edition of Conexion. So many years in print, so many momentos and memories. Babushka for her part has a few boxed away for future smiles. Y si Beautifuls, there will be future smiles.  El Mundo has decreed electronic reading the way to go, and life continues, and we will adjust. The environment will lose less trees, the waste will be less, the cost to produce will definitely be reduced and the size of the publication will prosper. There will be good from this change. And there will be nostalgia. The end of the year is always a good time for both. Ribbons to go around the cherished and scanning to enter the new era. Hopefully we will be sure to do this to all aspects of our lives.

Wishing All un Feliz Año Nuevo and Many Happy Memories.

Babushka Besos a Todos. Cuidensen.

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Babushka Turns 63.

 

September column in Conexion. Been a busy, baffling, Blessed Cumples Month. 

Hola, Hola, Hola Beautifuls! By the time you read this, Babushka would have turned 63.  Wow and Woah.  And that is exactly how she feels about that. Couldn’t decide whether to write 63 “for” BB or 63 “of” BB, y si, there is a diferencia. “FOR” is what happens to you, “OF” is what YOU make out of it. 

Honestly, it’s an ongoing pendulum. FOR- Some days Babushka is feeling her age. Sin gana de mover, either because of aches or just enjoying Being. At the stage where not having to clock in is truly a blessing, but then the bills and obligations knock and it’s time for the OF. Finding paying opps, little ones for the monthlys? Been there, done that, don’t need to do it again. A pendulum Beautifuls that BB is starting to appreciate and get used to. 

Mornings at the Senior Center, for like minded company. Babushka’s the baby of the bunch, so it’s wonderful to wrack the brains of those who know where BB’s at and can give sage advice- and silliness. You’ve never laughed so hard as when you’re in the company of those who know the quickness and the quirks of life. 

Mid-day is time for work. Appointments, writings, bargain hunting, online gotta dos, checking of accounts, planning for the next day, checking online sites for auditions. Oh si, the latter is definitely a  combo of both FOR and OF. The S Sisters- Serendipity and Synchronicity, are at work in acting accolades. Can’t be picked if auditions aren’t andando. Pero BB stressing about that? Truthfully, kinda. It’s a dream that’s been a vida in the making, making a vida out of a dream…

 

Deciding “AT” 63 is the word of the momento. 

Babushka Besos to All.  Cuidensen.

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Agotada in August.

 From BB's August column in Conexion. https://conexionflorida.com/agotada-en-august/

Hola ,Hola, Hola Beautifuls! 

Has this been a summer o que??!?!???  Oye, between the calores, record breaking heat waves, the torrential rains, and a year that flew by, is flying by in a BLEEP.  Wow and Woah.

Of course heat isn’t just physical. And it’s been a heck of a year for that too. 

Pero Remember and Believe Beautifuls, we will survive this. 

Difficult  times seem like darkness

In difficult times, it is like walking on thorns.

In difficult times, it is like walking on splinters.

In difficult times, it is like walking in the heat.

How can one see the light without experiencing a little discomfort

arising from the heat of the light?

The light is an energy.

The light has heat.

When you pray, but you still feel it’s hard…

When you pray, but you still feel it’s tough…

It is the heat.

Is is the heat that you are feeling.

Let me assure you, every prayer of yours is deeply received.

Let me assure you, every prayer of yours is heard.

The Universe wants you as much as you want it.

So, whenever you feel difficult, even after a prayer…

Remind yourself, that it is the heat that is warming you.

It is the heat that is getting you ready to enter the light of higher awakening.

It is the heat from the light that awaits to awaken you.

No heat, no inner strength.

No heat, no positive change.

No heat, no light in life.

Heat from the Light by Dharan M.

Si Beautifuls, Be Gentle with Yourselves. And know that You Are Loved.

Babushka Besos a Todos. Cuidensen.

BB2U

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