Editor’s note: Southern California-based Lorraine Devon Wilke is the author of “Chick Singer,” published in April by Sibylline Press, which presents work by women over 50. 

It comes as a slow infusion of awareness. A dawning of sorts. A moment when something happens, words are spoken; an epiphany emerges, and suddenly you learn what was heretofore unknown. New elements of who you are, clearer ideas of what you’re meant to be, to do. It’s both exhilarating and terrifying, identifying that dream, because now you’re driven to make it come true.  

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