From Guardian to Guide

Bethany Dugas
4 min readDec 12, 2020

Some Wisdom from Kahlil Gibran on the Parental Journey Toward Letting Go

“Mom shoots an Arrow” by DJOtaku is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

This was the year I thought I would have a very spacious nest. My oldest child had already moved out for university. My daughter graduated from high school and had an apartment lined up for her boyfriend and herself. My husband and I thought it would just be us and our sixteen-year-old. But pandemics…

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Bethany Dugas

I’m a business trainer specializing in workplace wellness and environmental sustainability. In my spare time I dabble as a mad scientist and street philosopher.