I just want Spirit Dancer
to know how much it means to me - the way she cares for all of us in this community, the loving kindness she has given to me over the years: what a beautiful servant-leader she is.
Tommi? Your post reduced me to tears (in a good way). Your servant leadership in taking care of every detail imaginable for Peggy... is... priceless.
I'm a terribly private woman; moreso, even online (if you can imagine that at all). My own family has experienced waves of death: death of loved ones, death of relationships, death of careers, death in every way you could possibly imagine or experience. Even in my own life, it would seem that death is knocking at my own door - but I refuse to answer.
I guess that may very well be a large part of my own personality: I have never been the kind of woman to bow down in the face of death. I've never been the kind of woman to lay down in the face of extremely challenging times. I may fall dead into bed because I'm flat worn out (exhausted), but there are times where I sit in my own kind of quietness and with a knowing heart, I know that I am doing all that I can do - even if I cannot see where I am going or I am too tired to think anymore or I am tempted to throw a dart on the map and hoping it will land anywhere other than here. But none of the above is possible, it would seem. All I can do is be present, ride this train for all it's worth and hope that I come crashing through to the other side (of who knows where) and arrive with a sweet smile on my face, even though I might have a bit of a tousseled appearance.
I just want all of you to know how much I appreciate you and that not a one of you escape my attention because I want all of you to know how much you've given to my life and how much it means to me, the friendships I have cultivated in this community over the years.
My heart felt love to all of you
and may each day you live, be as
sweet as possible; even if the impossible
dominates your lives for a second or two.
~D