Hi dear souls, this week I have not been here an, coming just now, I want to thank you all for your answers, when I spoke about my health issues. Thank you for your kindness, your closeness, your joyous words. I love you all, so much!
Thank to Cintia who replied to my question about her teaching.
So glad to see all your icons here.
THenry, I wish you a quick recovery.
I have not read every post, because I have a few time, but I feel at home. I know everyone is here. See you soon, may you enjoy your week end.

Hi dear souls, I am writing here after a reflection on Pilgrims’s post, that I would like to share with you. Forgive me if it is too much long.
First of all, dear Pilgrim! I didn’t realized that you have an issue with your hand, and that is even painful so that you can’t use it…I am so sorry! Knowing that, I appreciate your post as a special gift!
I know the problem with food: I have a recurrent issue due to my hiatal hernia that causes me reflux. This reflux is particularly boring during some months, such as May and June, October and November. I tried acupuncture, but now the best solution is a special treatment by an osteopath and a kinesiologist. Every day I do some exercises, twenty minutes of breathing and moving diaphragma. It is a path to healing, and the best result is that I can manage the issue and especially the problem with the vowel cords, that were affected by this reflux…
But the most important aspect of this progressive healing is that I have learnt to take care of my stomach. Eating. I have always ate, I love good recipes, but I have often had a bad habits during my lunch time. I did not eat enaugh, and the reason I always told myself was “I had no time, I had to go, I am late”, from a company to another, this is my work….as if I had to find the real fault in my boss….
It was my responsibility to chose. I was bad with myself, like in a complicated psycologic game where I was punishing myself so that I can show Anna like a victim. The result was that…..I had even difficulties in singing at my choir. Now, without changing my job, I have shifted my habits. I stop, I eat what can satisfy my hunger, I come here in this site, I read the posts…
I ENJOY my lunch! wow!
And maybe thank to the breathing exercises and other kind of exercises taught by a singing teacher, I can even sing better than before!
As to the headaches , Aine, they are a systematic issue that maybe a lot of women know.
Now I am taking a hormonal drug to lessen the heat waves that cause me fainting (while driving…. I can’t allow this) yet, the headaches love me soooo much!
A big hug to everyone here!❤️????????????

Oh dear friend! God is love, he can even joke, but He can’t be but Love.
Aine, we are here together ( I am well, it is since last week that I am not writing, but I am well and I am here????????) and we share a lot of common challenges. We can’t hid ourselves behind a thin grass….forgiveness is not easy!
But I am sure you are on the right path. it is a journey as Ose says. You can’t forget, but you can forgive. I often feel some kind of anger towards my mum …Oh dear friend! God is love, he can even joke, but He can’t but be Love.
Aine, we are here together ( I am well, it is since last week that I am not writing, but I am well and I am here????????) and we share a lot of common challenges. We can’t hid ourselves behind a thin grass….forgiveness is not easy!
But I am sure you are on the right path. it is a journey as Ose says. You can’t forget, but you can forgive. I often feel some kind of anger towards my mum and dad, thinking of my past.
They live on the same floor of my condominium. Often I feel nervous, when I notice those attitudes they had in the past and hurt me.
Then when I come into my home, thinking of their aging, I feel an opposite sense of tenderness. My mother likes reading the Holy Scriptures during the Mass. But now she is 82 and she often is too much worried and excited…so I promised I would have read for her, and she was glad. My father speaks a lot……uuuhhhhh…too much….yet this evening I suggest him to speak to our choir director, who for some reasons is a bit down….My father is 82 and sings in our parish choir, he is a Basso. He could be the father of our choir director, he knows him very well, I know that “G.” (The choir director) will appreciate my father’ s words. My father has listened to me.
These deeds are not so great Aine, but they are my way to forgive, to live in a simple and daily forgiveness towards my parents though I can be nervous….
Don’t think of a great action Aine. for exemple, it is very weird that I hug my father and mother, they never hugged me when I was a child, yet hugs are universally known as forgiveness expressions.
Forgiveness has its ways. It can grows as the day is unfolding in front of you. Carpe diem, and the day will offer you its tools. Courage! If no one is a saint, everyone is in the hearth of God. A kiss.

Dear Sylvie I love your honest and intriguing reply.
I believe that in the “here and now” of the daily life, every honest human beings behaves in the best way.
Yet every honest human beings knows that his/her awareness is always a work in progress. Today I understand boring aspects of some friends, more than in the past. So, I can be a better friend not because I am comparing my behaviour with others’ one, but with mine, without pressure, without judgment. For me, mercy has always to be the basis of every effert to understand human nature.
Hope I have not annoyed you with this too much long reply….