Everybody's Baby, No One's Child
A MEMOIR
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Many people misunderstand the meaning of spiritual. It does not mean religious. You can be spiritual and religious, and can be religious and not spiritual. Spiritual mean learning to be your best self, and then practicing what you learned to make the world a better place. Some people will question why they were born and have the inner strength to struggle for the answer. Others are willing to live a life that merely skims the top surface of life, intent only on self indulgence and material matter. When you are dissatisfied growth is trying to happen. Once you ask yourself, “Is this all there is?” you open a door to learning the meaning of spiritual. None of your experience is wasted; most definitely not the pain and hardship if you allow it to deepen your capacity to live life fully. Question your purpose, and make your life all that it was meant to be. The destination is well worth the journey!
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Everybody’s Baby, No One’s Child is a candid and insightful story of a challenging life and triumph over odds. Elaine Claypool’s memoir covers nearly eighty years of personal experience, and includes the vast societal changes during that span of time.
This is a story that begins with an unconventional childhood in which Elaine was swept away from the life she had known. In her teenage years she lived in Washington, DC, Japan, New York, Belgium and returned to DC, all within six years time. During that period she had a close encounter with a war, took care of her family during a crisis, and was self supporting at age eighteen.
A life changing journey full of hurdles continued that included grief and rebirth in her midlife, but she was determined to overcome difficult occurrence and have a meaningful and successful life. This open and poignant story of her life, told with forthrightness and in good grace, has much to tell about the power to overcome, the importance of forgiveness, and spiritual triumph.
Elaine hid parts of her history for decades. It took a very long time to know that all of our experience is meaningful and for a reason. Now aware of the importance of her hard earned learning, and being at peace with her past, she shares her life lessons in this memoir.
About the Author
Elaine Claypool, a retired interior designer, attended The George Washington University; then received diploma from The New York School of Interior Design. She lived in Japan and Belgium, and currently lives in Manassas, Virginia where she wrote her memoir covering nearly eighty years of experience.