rock on, gold dust woman

         I was thinking, the day before yesterday when I went to type on this blog, about moving to different towns when I was a little child.

        The reason we moved was because my dad was a minister in the United Church Of Christ, and their way of doing things was, you serve in one parish for about three-to-six years and then go to a different one. - You do what you can in one community, and then go to a new community and see what positive accomplishments can be achieved there.

         You don't become "stale," or "stuck in a rut," or something....

Some people who moved around a lot when they were growing up talk about it in a very negative light - like, they really didn't like all the moving.  You hear this if you read biographies, or listen to people's life stories on You Tube or other media.

There was a "Behind The Music" episode about Stevie Nicks back in the '90s.  She said her family moved several times during her growing-up years.  She didn't seem traumatized by it - she just said something like, 'I had to be somewhat outgoing, in order to make my way in a new situation'....

        I could relate to her life and attitudes, even though I'm not a singer or songwriter.

        One thing about people who hated when their parents moved a lot, sometimes there were other problems that went with that - like, they weren't moving because dad was a minister, they are moving because dad and mom had trouble between them, so you had a separate drama going on that made the children feel unhappy and insecure.

        It wasn't that there was something wrong with the town they moved to, it was instability and chaos.

Then there are military families - they can sometimes move many times, and that can have various pluses and minuses to it.  More different schools and friends to get used to.

I went to the rest of third grade and then all the way through eighth grade in one town, and then all the way through high school in one town.

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