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Making the Unknown Known

Andrea Hylen
3 min readJul 11, 2020

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Photo by Rayyu Maldives photographer on Unsplash

Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing. ~Georgia O’Keeffe

Today started with a text thread from my three adult daughters:

Elizabeth: “I just started hysterically laughing thinking about the time Mom changed the name of the office and Hannah didn’t know where that was (in the house)…
…..”where’s that?”…..

Mary: 😂😂😂😂😂 We crack up about that ALLLLLL THE TIME!

Hannah: 🤣🤣🤣🤣❤️❤️

Elizabeth: What was the room called?

Mary: H- MOM, where are you?
M- I’m in the Meditation room
H- (long pause)
H- where’s that?
M- the old Success room

Elizabeth: LOL

In our old house in Maryland, I had a room I called the “Success Room.” I named it that as a symbol of ‘this is where projects are successfully completed.’ The room was always a mess with piles of paper, books, paint, a sewing machine, a computer, a knitting machine, craft tools, and art supplies including things like glitter, ribbons, empty egg cartons, milk jugs and glass bottles. At any moment, I had access to materials that could be created into anything. Materials for Girl…

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Andrea Hylen
Andrea Hylen

Written by Andrea Hylen

Founder of Heal My Voice and The Incubator. Life Scientist. Live house-free. Widow. Mom of Adult Daughters. Grief. Writing Sexuality. Evolutionary Woman

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