Living with Ourselves

I replied in length my dear @Maggie

and guess what it did not work???

My dearest @Maggie

wherever you are,

whatever you are doing,

whoever might be involved

whatever reason you have for your current actions

I, Sophia, will always support you

with love, unconditional support, sometimes leave of absence as in I am practicing self care...

I know already that you have so many on here who support you..

Wonderful, You are entitled to this and so much more support..

I know that you will use the strength of this support to further assist you in your life long challenge to have the support that you need and is justified..

Hello @Maggie

I hope that you are feeling comfortable and safe.

I also hope that my perhaps over flowery response did not offend you.

I do get carried away at times.

Again, I find myself saying to you that I do not know where your life is at.

I am not uptodate with anyone's situation on here.

As you might have found out, I am on here randomly.

Even I do not know when that will be.

Whenever I find myself drawn here probably best describes how it is.

Summer has come to an end, perhaps not yet the hotter days as March and April can be in the higher temperatures.

I have a mammoth job ahead of me...preparing the ground for planting..

weeding...I am thinking of laying down newspaper after...then adding a small amount of topsoil and mulch.

I have some cuttings but no layout plan as yet.

I need to see how the front turns out with the landing from the front porch and then the steps down...

work my way to the side from that design...that is how my head is working at the moment..

I am off out next week with a few people on an historic excursion of a town not too far away, then lunch at another location recently done up, finally a visit to a native plant garden which will interest me immensely as this is the area where I need the most knowledge.

I know the bulbs, cottage gardens, annuals and will have some of those somewhere.

I just need to get my head around some low and medium level growing in the native plant field.

Any help would be warmly welcomed.

How does your garden grow these days?

Take care

Sophia 💜

Hello @Former-Member

Thank you for your response.

I am wondering where the piece is that you wrote about in regards to being a highly sensitive person which many who know me might label otherwise laugh. In particular family.

I read something about the subject not that long ago and have to say what a huge relief and a big resounding "yes"..

finally someone gets it!!

I won't make mention of your situation as once again I know not what is happening.

Take care as always Sherry

Sophia 💜

hello @outlander

Well there is a thing...sounds welsh

Have some family there...

For goodness sake I miss so many tags so do not be worrying yourself about that lass....laugh

We find this place for a reason,,, we connect with different people for a reason ...the connection is between us...

thank you

I hope that my responses reach others who can connect...

I will include some others @Maggie @Former-Member @Bunniekins @Exoplanet @Zoe7 @Adge @MDT @TAB @Former-Member @Happyness @Appleblossom @eth @Shaz51 @Owlunar @Teej

many others I have forgotten..apologies

Life is different again now...welcome difference with new home and environment..

younger son doing well and preparing to settle into his new home..

other family member has fled again for same reason as always..

was reported missing for over a month and now sighted.

have had several chats...

last couple have been quite interesting...

I can definitely sense a change,,maturity..alarmingly definitely streetwise far more than I am or ever have been..

nature of the situation..

so I hold onto the fleeting moments of connection each time...

at other times firmly setting personal boundaries...

person is doing miraculously well considering not counselling or prescribed medication for any diagnosis..

obviously phone calls vary from phychosis...anger....deep care and wanting to know family well and safe..

It is a whole new existence...experience on all sides..

I am dealing with it sometimes, not so well at other times. not at all occasionally...

then that is life isn't it..

trying not to look past today works best for me..

this is hard concerning other members in my life and interests...

segregation of strategies....

forever open to what is happening now..

until next time

thank you

Sophia 💛💚💜

thanks for the tag @Sophia1 hopefully things become more settled

@Sophia1

Hi @Sophia1 nice to see you. Your expression 'segregation of strategies' has really given me pause for thought - recognising that that is how I live too. One day at a time as much as possible when so many appointments etc have to be planned in advance with support workers.

Sorry to hear your family member has taken off again. It must be hard for you. I have to confess that what they're putting you through sounds like me on occasions a long time ago now with my family. Undiagnosed bipolar 1 in my case. Life is so different now that I am more stable.

Sending you strength and patience to deal with it all xx

@Sophia1 💜💜💜

Better homes and gardens had a section on natives last Friday. You might be able to google the show, it would have been the 6/3/2020.

Sorry family member is struggling and vanishing, so hard to understand.

I live one day at a time also @Sophia1 .