2 St, : 0 , ° . cen But free to choose SO, YOU think you have a choice eh? Not so. Think about it. The question under consideration has to do with whether we have a choice, or edge of your life. I suppose one reason it does not seem to be that way is because of the generations of training we have given the srowing edge by Hayden Stewart not, about living at the grow- ing edge. Do I sound slightly shrill when I say, dogmatical- ly, there’s no choice? Well, anyway, I've said it and I’m giad. Here and now you are already living at the growing edge. Late tonight and early tomorrow. afternoon you’ll be at the growing edge. It may not always seem so, and you may not always act like it, but always that’s where you are — at the growing [ Open door to adults ___ | ATTENTION ali breathing adults! North -Shore Neigh- bourhood House has opened its doors to adults every Thursday evening from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. C) Weddings choose. studlo. cost effective! 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So, you shuffle off to work and there you learn that you've been laid There is something for everyone — the Bridge Club, chess club, games club, are looking for new members. Our pottery room and wood- working room is open for off. You go home and find that your son has been busted for driving while dangerously disadvantaged, . your daughter is unappropriately pregnant and the mattress in which you have sewn your life-savings has been thrown out and is merrily: -ablaze in the back lane. Just then, of course, you learn your neighbor is suing you for something or other. Everything has gone ““wrong”’ at once. To add to your slight edginess about this pile-up of minor and ma- jor catastrophes your sicken- ingly ‘‘positive’’ neighborhood columnist writes, (with apparent glee) **You have no choice. You are at the growing edge’”’. But it’s true you know. You have no choice. You’re at the growing edge. That’s where you’re at. That is your current location. You have no choice. 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With your continuing support, we have been able to expand and upgrade our facilities, providing only the highest quality professional photography. Today Mountain West offers North Shore families and businesses a complete range of photographic services: Cl1 - Sunday, February 19, 1984 - North Shore News ‘e stuck with the growing edge tion’”’ is a matter of choice. You're stuck with the grow- ingedge, but how you perform there is your choice. “‘In any new moment of awareness, you are free to make a new choice. Your newest moment of awareness is now’’. 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