Thank you

Well, you certainly know how to make a person feel loved. Thank you all for your kind comments and messages this week, after I posted about my slow return. I have read them all and let them fill my heart up in a way I haven’t really allowed in years.

Coming back here, even tentatively, has felt like a homecoming of sorts. A return to somewhere familiar and somewhere new. I’m sure there’s a word for that feeling in another language but I don’t know what it is.

I felt something resonate when I hit publish on my last post and felt it again every time I read one of your replies. At first, I thought it might be because I know many of you are travelling your own path of living with chronic illness. But the closer I looked, the more I saw it went beyond that.

What I saw was a common thread that wound through everyone’s words. And upon closer inspection, I saw that the thread was actually made of twin strands, wrapped so tightly around each other as to be almost indistinguishable.

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