[Gpdd] RAINBOW BRIDGE - some thoughts

[rmalsberg at comcast.net]

Dear Everyone and Everypig -

I want to share some thoughts on condolences, etc.

It seems (maybe it isn't, but it seems so) that we go through cycles when there are more Bridge notices than others.  It's a heavy time, then.  I try to read each notice, but honestly, sometimes I can't.  Like many, I struggle with periodic chronic depression (just now is not terrible, but kind of a downswing time) and I may or may not be "up to it" that day.

Rest assured, every loss is recorded somewhere in my consciousness, connected to my own losses, so, truly, your sorrow is felt as my own.

When I can, I try to write to the person at their own email.  It just seems more private to me.  Those who have received my messages will know what I mean.

So, long story short, and others have been here before me, I know, just because I don't express condolences on the digest does not mean I don't send them, or that I don't share the loss in my heart.

To everyone who has lost a friend recently, whether I've written you privately or not, please know that as "sympathy" means "feeling the same" I feel for you, and you have my sympathy, believe me.

Here's to whateve brings us healing and hope, 

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Wheeks, 

Rayna, Carmen and Sharpless 
Taffy, Sundae and Tosca in mem