Patty, I know you are going to enjoy your SF07 trip across the country in the S! Travel sometimes provides a break that helps in allowing the emotional wounds to heal. And remember time -- time heals, too!

 

I agree. Just seeing something else will help.

I have a tentative plan for the way there, just based on distances. I have to double check with Ruth Josey and see if she still is up for me to visit on Tuesday night. I was thinking of hitting her house in Rockwall, Tuesday night, and leaving around noon on Wednesday, to drive 347 miles to Little Rock, Arkansas. Are you near her at all? She says it's about 20 miles east of Dallas on the northern corner. I forget where you live.

 

Jim used to list his TX address in his profile, but the Bushies were getting too close to his trail....hearing about the Dark Cypher. He had to go underground

 

Once he became a CO, I think he got more stealthy.

 

What happened to Jim? His is on? He was just here..... maybe he's over in Polytics....keeping someone in line

 

Nope....just checked. NO ONE has been there for 4-5 hours

Maybe he's over on the "Street Encounters" Forum again

That's enough for me.....have to semi-WORK tomorrow. See y'all tomorrow

 

[B][QUOTE=Kyras,Apr 5 2007, 11:58 AM]Next up, The Stages of Grief...

 

^ Yes, Kubler-Ross' famous book On Death and Dying puts forth these same stages. They can be applied to many areas of life, I think.

 

with some reservation. We don't always work through those stages and move on. Sometimes we find ourselves moving backward again. It is not necessarily a step by step ordeal and just when you think you've moved on to another stage, you may find yourself moving backward. Stage 4 is particularly difficult to move through and have complete freedom from those feelings of letting go. I think for me when my dad died, it took a couple of years before I finally got out of stage 4 and felt the freedom from grief and depressive feelings that seemed to pounce out of nowhere. The uber important thing is not moving out of needy feelings into a relationship before you've dealt thoroughly with all the aspects of ending your previous relationship.

 

Val brings up an important point. It has been my experience that you zig zag through the stages. It is not a linear process.