Cadence!!! I've been wondering how things are going with you. Hopefully you posted on the other thread, and if so, I'll find out over there. IF NOT, I'll be coming back for some updates on you! Did you ever meet new guy FTF? Did that go anywhere?

I'd LOVE to meet up with you on my way through, even if it's just for airport coffee! As it gets a little closer, I'll get back to you with dates, times, etc and we'll see if we can work it out. HOW EXCITING!

I'm staying busy with this part time job, and doing my best to GAL. Not only to just GAL, but to actually ENJOY it. That's harder, I think.

I wrote this in my journal yesterday. It speaks a little to where I am emotionally right now.

It is nearing one year without the safety net of marriage, and although the pain still jabs hurtful feelings throughout, my strength softens the blows.
The pain is a constant ebb and flow of rain, rather than the hard, driving hail storm it once was.
It is not that time heals. I will always mourn the life I thought was mine.
It is that I am getting stronger.

M-60 H-51
M-14 years
BD 12/26/16
S 1/1/17

"First the pain, then the rising."
Glennon Doyle Melton