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What's Ray Saying?

Ray's Ruminations: Empty Nesters

What's Ray Saying?

Ray Christian

Blackhistory, Storyteller, Blackculture, History, Story, Storytelling, Arts, Slam, Africanamerican

5625 Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, as their two youngest prepare to leave home for college, Ray and Tiffany contemplate a new phase of their life together. What will it be like without kids in the house all the time?

Transcript

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0:00.0

What's Ray saying?

0:06.2

What's Ray saying?

0:12.4

This is Ray, the source of all black knowledge with another rumination to kind of hold you over while we're working on a new episodes of the podcast.

0:22.6

We are working on new episodes of the podcast, right?

0:25.3

Yes, we are.

0:26.5

Absolutely.

0:27.3

The only limitation in that is what funding.

0:30.1

We're waiting to get some kind of.

0:31.6

Yeah, financial support makes it a whole lot easier to produce the episodes because it's so involved.

0:39.2

I think it's hard to realize until you're on this side of things, what goes into an episode.

0:43.9

So funding is what makes the world go around and funding is what makes episodes happen.

0:49.4

All right.

0:49.8

So with that said, here's what I've been thinking about.

0:53.3

And that's our whole life since we've been married has revolved around children.

0:59.5

We've always had children in the house.

1:02.1

There was a time when we had absolutely a full house, six kids, four for the longest period of time in the house growing up, making noise,

1:13.7

bussing holes in the walls, having to be calmed down.

1:18.9

And it's like it's that sound now that the last two,

1:24.4

the twins, both 18 years old, they were off to college. And I don't have mixed feelings.

1:31.8

I really don't feel, I'm not happy about seeing them leave. I don't know. In some ways, I kind of

1:40.7

imagine some level of relief, but from doing all the running around stuff.

1:47.4

But I don't know.

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