Coach, You're so very right about focusing and finding a healthy coping mechanism...for so long it's been running and soccer - that it left me kind of frozen for a bit...I had this urge to build a new bookshelf - which lead me down the path of thinking too much about having moved from a house to an apartment...not productive thinking - but enough to let me know that I had to get out of the house at least...go somewhere and do something...So, on Saturday, I took S2 to the beach - just the two of us - and we had a wonderful time.
On Sunday, I got together with a college friend that I hadn't seen in a while - he was/is healing from the end of a three-year relationship - so I found myself sharing with him a lot of what I learned over the past year...it's odd how unhelpful our nature inclinations can be at the end of a relations...he was on course of making all the mistakes one could make at the end of R...putting all his energy into blaming his partner...
So...the bookshelf idea has been tabled...and in it's place is this notion of building something in my mind...collecting words as I used to collect them, and arrange them in a story...it's what I've been meaning to do for months now - many months - I've just got to find the path through this horrid bout of writer's block...
