For one reason and another (mostly sheer inertia) I hadn’t checked my non-work e-mail since Tuesday. I just went and read it.
The e-mails and the comments on the blog blew me away with the depth of friendship in them. Kerry, I’d read Thinking In Pictures, but the other things were new to me. More wonderful is that you took the time to track those things down and give me the links. Thank you even more for the vote of confidence. I miss you, Chick.
Dorothea, thank you. That was utterly unexpected and completely marvelous, as well as impeccably timed. When all my focus has been on Joseph, you reminded me that I’m in this too, as myself and not just his mother.
Li, I will indeed talk to your mom. Murray, thank you for hugs when I need them.
I have some amazing, wonderful friends. Because of you, I’m pretty much in one piece. Thank you all.
Miss you, too.
*tips hat*
Just doin’ my job, ma’am.
Nichevo, lyubamets.
And, after all, you yourself would NEVER be there for anyone else, would you…?
*Sounds of sardonic laughter slowly fading away*