Exploring a new, wonderful platonic friendship with Alden is reminiscent of dating. I’m on my best behavior. Poised, shiny bright on the outside, insecure inside. I feel self-conscious, excited, vulnerable, engaged. I’m considering friend matrimony, yet am not wedded to the idea. I hope she’ll please give me a ring.
Jannie Dziadzio loves publishing 50 word stories, for better or worse.
I enjoyed a particularly great conversation with my mom yesterday. She popped by unexpectedly, offering lavish praise for my latest songwriting endeavor, her smile crinkly bright. She’s usually warm, but this time she was enthusiastically effusive. I flushed with joy. Best conversation since her death 9 years ago.
Jannie Dziadzio is gratefully devoting her sixth decade of life to deep connection, beauty, creative spark and harmony in a myriad of forms.
I look into your eyes and see your time-weathered sixty-seven years in your face. I am twenty-three, vibrant, invincible, and hopeful. To see me, you look inside, at a former self. For me to see you, I look in the mirror. We are one, wondering where all the time went.
Jannie Dziadzio is a retired Intuitive Transformational Coach whose last name is impossible to pronounce.