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Growing Up Parker With Mama 10/21/2017 12:01:13 PM
The Oak Creek Canyon is beautiful in the fall, with trees of red, amber and gold, the crisp air that greets your senses as the dusty smells of autumn ascend skyward along with the smoke of burning sycamore leaves along the creek at Indian Gardens. My memories are made of this. Growing up in a small town on the outside of the local clique was hard enough, but growing up with Mama, who was seemingly incapable of love, was no picnic either. Being the fourth of seven children, the fourth girl with three brothers younger, I was definitely the one in the middle. Despite the stigma of my family name, growing up in the fifties in the picturesque red rocks of Sedona and Oak Creek Canyon in Arizona, afforded me the things that molded my malleable mind as a child, allowing me to connect with the things of nature, the things that God had given me. We can all withstand a less than sterling upbringing as long as we realize that our lives are what we ourselves make of it.
