I just got back from the Italian alps, where eating Gelato was vital after skiing!

Spring is coming and I am only just about ready to re-emerge. I look forward to reconnecting and enjoying this life with those who sing its joys and weep its tears with me.
Thank you for listening... Love to you all

After 30 years of parenting and partnering, no golden handshake, no retirement pay, no "your work was valuable, " medal. Nothing. But my heart is huge, well grown, well mature and growing wiser. Other women know we give our all and then dissolve into the liminal space, redefining who we are.

Apparently not, apparently this was building tools for my future self alone.
I am no saint, and most definitely not a martyr, some things are worth regretting, contemplating and moving on hopefully learning the lessons.

The shift of being carer for others, the stable mother and wife, person of unconditional love, but with a short fuse for injustice. Nearly 30 years of my daily life revolving around others and grasping furiously at my own needs, worrying I am selfish for doing so?

Also the changes in my personal life, the emerging of myself in gentle spring from a true wintering of going within and facing myself alone now. Losing people in my life, regaining some lost from circumstance and not from choice, just life, I was busy doing other things, caring for others mostly.

A dear friend said HOPE stands for Hold On Pain Ends.
Spring is coming, life loves to live. Spring brings hope, light, beauty and life pushing itself back into the picture, no matter how difficult the winter.

Hi! I'm an acupuncturist and teacher of Wu yun liu qi. I'm studying to be able to translate to further my understanding of the relevant texts.
Wishing you well.

Aspiring to be able to do this, hopefully in a few years I can.

Small wins! I did my increasingly complicated tax return yesterday, and I felt like I was a queen when it was done! Was so totally chuffed with myself!

I really struggled with reading after my brain has converted to short term attention social media. I am now retraining myself to read. Admittedly I've had a few years of hardship and reading wasn't a priority. Now reading Hadley Freeman's House of Glass. Very good book.

I have been dabbling with translation since 2021, I have had online courses, and now have a tutor, and love it. My biggest project has been the Nei Ye chapter 49 of the Guanzi.

Been to the gym for gentle exercise, shared with a dear friend our heart troubles.
Eaten and just remembered meds.

Love to the beehive 🐝🐝🐝🐝

I glad! Love and respect to you Stevie