Thank you all so much - it is part of really letting go, and seeing the MLCer for what they are and have become. Like I said, some of them come through MLC but haven't faced their demaons, and are so much less than they were.

Realising how diminished by xh is is so sad. But every time we go through a rough patch we find a better place . . . . .

This is a great place. And one reason I am positing less is my life is very full and busy and present!!

Btw I love the image of a badly pruned bush - you will become a beautiful piece of optiary again.