I asked you last week this question: "When I think about money I feel_________?" I know I felt many different ways--mostly as I said,
baffled.
And truth be told somewhat guilty. Was I, am I a sell out for wanting enough money to care for my daughter and myself?
Leading edge boomers of the more progressive persuasion, have often had this ambivalent relationship to money. And as a result, many of us are not in good shape fiscally speaking. Being a late blooming boomer, I've mashed all the life cycle aspects into a short period of my life instead of spreading them out over time--so here I am with a minor daughter and looking at the road ahead when many people are thinking of slowing down and I see nothing of that picture--ever! . Well, also, I have no desire to take that route either...but that is beside the point for the moment.

So is thinking about money a sellout
of the best of boomer values?
Where is the line between selfishness, greed and caring for self? Is it crass to be so focused on money?
For us women boomers especially the link between money, self-interest and efficacy (or power) is a complex one. It is a critical link, because of the longevity tables, the divorce rate, the double even triple responsibilities of caring for children, parents and self, the economic earnings disparity between women and men, and the basic right to have a roof over one's head and eat fall disproportionately on women. Women have more responsibilities, fewer job options, over all less earning power and live longer with less money than do men.
SO, YES, YES, YES Boomer women especially need to think about money, a lot, and think hard about it. We did not create a system that discriminates against us.And we cannot fix it over night. Activist boomer women and the men who support them have fixed a lot over the last 30 years.
What faces us now is the reality of a combination of social factors, cultural barriers and inner barriers as well.
My question to you this week is when you get a picture in your mind about you and money, "What do you see_________?"
For many years I saw a "black blank".
Then a few years ago, I began seeing very dimly a very thick high stone wall and I, like the Kilroy character, was peering over the wall longingly and as I said, baffled.
Then in a discussion with a friend, I had an epiphany.
And that wall separating me from abundance, love, money, financial stability, "enough" changed to a very big dam with a very big reservoir behind the dam. 
Every night I try to remember to see that dam, see the streams of abundance flowing into the reservoir and see it filling up and up and up, and overflowing.
With the abundance that overflows I
see many things I want to do with the amount that is beyond the "enough" I need for a comfortable life. I see an economic development project in the Michigan Upper Peninsula.
I see an economic development project in Newark, an urban cottage craft, recycling and empowerment project and more and more.
So what, I ask you, are the inner barriers between you and your enough?