Joyce,
This reply of you has made me feel like a little boy unable to respond adequately. What can I say when I feel not equal to the task? Only add that coming out of my absurd, earlier life was so lenghty and difficult or so it seemed to me. It involved leaving so many things behind, all of them extremely negative to my health both physical and mental. But in fact it was all decided in one split second, and help from above was decisive. Otherwise it would have been too much for me.
Not that life is easy now, like you, I have been - still am - battered by the wind. And my family life is so rudimentary that I don't know if I can call it like that at all. A dear god-daughter who left to live her own life, a dear sister who calls on occasion, the dear lady who cares for me and my needs and those of my dogs at home, my dear dogs themselves, that's all. Yet rudimentary or not, it is perfect for me at this stage. It is one of those things where the lesser is better.
For the rest... I could copy what you say about the precious gift of the Internet and this dear Adlandpro community. And of course, my activity in it (my "mission" as you call it)... I would not change any of it. This and my daily reading and meditation, and the walks with my dogs, all of it fills my life with joy and love and happiness.
As to my legacy... I so hope I am leaving one. Thank you, dear friend.
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