I'm ready to go back to work week of the ninth.

[CommonHumanity]

17. I suspect your depth, humor, insight and love of life/people (and dogs) you will help carry you

I love your posts and get a kindred spirit feeling when I read them. What I connect with is how you stop to notice and savor the simple beauties of life as a human. I sense a grounded depth of soul in you that will help carry you forward. That sounds trite or maybe even presumptuous, I know. I don't mean to diminish pain, but I know that you will continue to be a bright shining spirit.

For me, eventually a new kind of self emerges that includes pains that never fade, but in time become part of the fabric of my life on earth. That is not any kind of reference to an after life, I just mean the turning of the wheel of life on earth is what we have with its joys and sorrows and that time eventually wears us down into accepting it all and somehow savoring the ride nonetheless. Hope that makes some sense. Having a hard time finding the words, but can still send you love and appreciation for how your posts have spoken to me.

Glad to hear about 18 and keep petting those pups. I recently went through a mammoth life-shaking loss and having my sweet giant dog lay with me day after day helped me through in a huge way. God bless the dogs and children!