Gratitude
It has been so long since I have written here, and so much has happened, that I hardly know where to begin. So instead, I feel compelled to list what I am most thankful for, right now, at this very moment in my life. I am thankful for T, who really listens to me, who is willing to sit on the phone while I tell her the details of my day and is more patient and calm about whatever I'm saying, more able to be a witness and not a fixer, than anyone I've ever met. I needed this more than I even realized. I am grateful for my friend J, who is always honest with me. I am thankful that I have learned to be a witness, to sit at the edge of a person's pain and hold it without becoming it. Even, when I am most centered, to sit at the edge of my own pain and hold it without becoming it. I am grateful for my daughter's opportunity to volunteer at the Humane Society, for the board that welcomed her, for the college student H who goes with her. She belongs again in a way that she hasn...