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I was overwhelmed with gratitude and humbled by the many heartfelt responses I received about my blog Breaking Up IS Hard To Do! last week. I was also astounded by how many people chose to share. I thank each of you who read and did share it on your facebook or twitter pages. As much I love for all of you to post it, what is more important is that I gave you something that you could feel, learn from, and be better for. I have found the more vulnerable I am while writing these blogs each week, the more they touch people. I suppose it is because we have all ‘been there’ and we all respond to the vulnerability of another. And…boy did I let myself be vulnerable on that one!
I usually start pondering the next blog around Tuesday if something doesn’t hit me before that. This week was a little different. Monday night Scout and I were hanging out and she said out of the blue, “Let’s listen to the Beatles ‘Let It Be’.” I was in the middle of working and by the time I was done we had both moved on to other things.
Then the next morning when I woke up everything felt fresh again. Remember when I wrote last week ~ “It will be hard to go to sleep alone but it will be harder to wake up alone?” That’s how I woke up – feeling alone. I started thinking about everyone who may have woken up that morning feeling alone, overwhelmed, stressed, angry, grief stricken, in pain, worried, etc. Continue reading »