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AppleblossomSenior Contributor
For a while I have tried to find a thread I had started when I joined the forum that could be a "home" thread for me.
Being busy about the forum has been a coping style, where I can acknowledge all my different life experiences that had been silenced. Possibly do some good and prevent things from getting worse. Like the little boy with the finger in the dyke.
Feeling fragile
Needing Nurture
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outlanderSenior Contributor
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MaggieSenior Contributor
@Appleblossom Thinking of you. 💕
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AppleblossomSenior Contributor
@outlander
Thank you @Maggie
Feeling Very Fragile. Taken prn. Life and relationships are so sad.
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outlanderSenior Contributor
@Appleblossom
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MaggieSenior Contributor
@Appleblossom
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AppleblossomSenior Contributor
Thanks @Maggie
I think I might start making comments about being and feeling like an oak tree and remind myself that I am as strong as the poem suggests.
Got a lot on with my boy, should be posting on Carer side but too busy. Just flying by, but Jee it makes a difference you posted AND what you posted.
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OwlunarSenior Contributor
It's tough sometimes @Appleblossom
Oak trees are a good analogy - I have a poem by Edwin Markham mentioning oak trees - they
... send down a root on the windward side.
And
Only the heart that knows the mighty grief
Can know the mightly rapture. Sorrows come
To stretch the spaces in the heart for joy.
Hard stuff Apple - but I have found it true - without my sorrow for my boy I could never have learned what I know - thinking of you today
Dec
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AppleblossomSenior Contributor
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MaggieSenior Contributor
@Appleblossom @Owlunar 💜💕💜💕
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MaggieSenior Contributor
Easier to read version @Appleblossom @Owlunar
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