I have been away for so long that I am not sure I am in the right place. Here I am, a bit worse for the wear but happy to see your faces and happy to be here. Hello my sweet blog peeps, it is so nice to see you all.
It has been a struggle – and I am sure it is going to be some still – but the complications leave one wondering about why hundred story buildings are built on toothpick foundations as a friend of mine used to say. My two year old laptop decided to commit suicide and it did. No warning, no announcement, just took a flight out of its Windows and my tooth that has been cared for gently and lovingly with organic toothpaste, gentle brushes and a king’s ransom of dentist’s visits about which my late Father used to joke saying that my dowry was in my mouth, for no reason or rhyme as well parted ways with the rest of its kin without a word or a provocation via a piece of candy or any other offensive weapon.
Friday was the last day of the second cycle. At my request we will not start the third until after Thanksgiving. It would make for some iffy Holidays at the end of December, but I would rather be feeling semi-normal when the whole family is here for Thanksgiving instead of waiting for whatever may be the last part of December.
To thank you all for your kindness and care would need words I don’t have. Thank you seems such a paltry way to return a gift for a gift as is the law in our home, but lacking the erudition needed to find the proper way, I give thanks for each and every one of you that has brought a ray of sunshine in an otherwise clouded set of weeks. Lori wrote to me some time ago “I hope your friends are rallying and I hope beyond hope that people you thought were friends are not showing their true colors” and I have to say that yes to both answers is proper. But the sting of finding that some friendships were just made of my own wishes was more than taken away by those who are taking my hand and feeding my spirit in this journey that I pray none of you will ever have to take.
So, now it is on to work on the ungrateful tooth, try to make some jewelry that I am anxious to create and to show you what my dearest Lori sent to keep me warm, something I simply fell in love with because it is from her – she commissioned a local artist to weave it and I have no words to describe the softness of the wool, silk, angora, and the talent that created this interpretation of a Japanese kanji according to her own vision - but also because it reminds me that I have now a physical way of feeling the love when the cold comes to visit. You, and you and you, all of you who care so much, are dear to my heart and fill me with a form of gratitude that is different than any other. For that, I am humbly grateful. Now let’s enjoy this three weeks of freedom together. I will be back soon, I promise and I do keep my promises.










