It has been a while since my last update. And quite a lot of events have happened since. I just got back from ten days vacation and now trying to catch up on things back at work. I had a good long visit with family and friends. Had lots of conversations although not as many as I had originally anticipated, as it turned out, but interesting all the same. I learned quite a bit more about my brother K's sitch, and observed for myself how people's behaviors and mannerisms communicate more than they let on. I can elaborate a little of that in subsequent posts, but it is a lot more than I can convey here in any great detail.
Most importantly, I spent a lot of good quality time with my S's all the week long. And while I am quite road weary now and I am missing my kids (xW picked them up Sunday afternoon after the family reunion ended -- that's a story in and of itself!), I am doing pretty well all the same.
Incidentally, the "something around the corner" I mentioned to be sensing is still there, although I do note that this is mostly another "cycle" to which I am gyrating to -- still, I feel the road smoothing out much more appreciably this time. The roller coaster is a far cry from what it has been in the past.