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lighter:
Recently, and within months of each other, I lost the best friend I wanted to bring to this board, a healer in my life who's been there for me through thick and thin, someone I enjoyed working side by side with very much, and a very wise depended upon cabinet member I'll miss very much.

I'll miss them all very much.

My mother's been struggling with stage IV breast cancer, with mets to the liver and spleen, for over 3 years. 

One of my remaining best friends is almost 85 years old, and it will be a year before she can make the move near me, if at all.

I write this for myself, as a touchstone to where I am right now.

I'm back in the State my children want to live in.  I have my children in a great new school, small, and perfect, and run by people from our old school, but with State funding this time, and no cost to the students.  It's amazing, and feels right.......

and here we are.    The easiest move of my life.  It's good.

Endings, and new beginnings, and in betweens all mashed up together. 

It's life.

That's my update for now.

Lighter

Hopalong:
Lighter, I'm so sorry.
That's a lot of loss.
Grief and anticipated grief,
sounds like this is a hard season.

I'm also so sorry you had to leave your new home?
But hope you're happy to be back in familiar turf, enjoying
those city things too.

Did I understand it right? Garden? New home? Left now?
You have actually moved again?

If so, my sympathies...

hugs
Hops

Izzy_*now*:
(((lighter)))

My sympathies on the passing of your friends, and the precariousness of the others.

I was wondering about your girls, growing up and home schooled, but now I know how the passage time changes things.

It's the "squished between life and death" that is the hard part!

You been through the grinder and come out whole. More power to you!

Love
Izzy

lighter:
Hi Hops, and Izz:

Yes, we moved again.  Not a bad thing.  A necessary thing, I think.

The children are happy, and settled, and back in familiar territory.

We love our new place, and there will be plenty of opportunity to work in friend's gardens, even if I don't have my own right now.  I can also do pots, which I adore.

I'm loving all over ferns right now, and the morning's are cool.  We're looking forward to fall, and the children are happily chattering about what they'll be this Halloween.  I LOVE Halloween, and here it comes!

The update on my mom is 3 steps back 2 steps forward.  She's down to 90lbs, which is a lot of lost weight for her.  She's the rebound kid, I will tell you that.  An amazing woman, and I'm so lucky to have had these last few years to really be present with her. 

Lighter

lighter:
I'm very sad tonight.

Mom had a bad day, and hasn't taken anything to drink or eat.

She's done fighting.  It's going to be over in a  matter of hours or days at the most now.

Very sad.

Lighter

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