Thank you for these affirmations, peacetoday--I think you posted while I was writing my post this morning, so I just saw your words. I feel like I am doing pretty bad, not able to maintain indifference right now, but it is an extremely hard time, as you say. So it helps me to remember that and not to be hard on myself on top of everything else. I will just try my best to keep surviving this new period, every day starting over if I have to.
I thought of one way to practice compassion--I'll begin asking H if he needs anything from the store when I go, because we're all going so rarely now anyway, and it's hard to find things. In times like these, that seems like a basic kindness.
