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Al Bellenchia's avatar

💕

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Lisa Ditalia's avatar

So happy I connected with you!🥰

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Stanley Wotring's avatar

A very important truth everyone should share!

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Leland Katz's avatar

Three months after my wife of 60+ years died, I felt like this.

LOST

Home is where WE are he told her

as they left the house they

raised their children in.

Now 25 years and two moves later

cancer has stolen her from him

and WE no longer exists.

Lost, he struggles to find his way

never letting on the pain he feels.

I started writing poetry — and my blog. I connected with my senior community. It helped. Some. That was three years ago. Then the woman who 70 years ago as a 15 year old girl was my high school sweetheart reentered my life.

A LOVE POEM

When souls are open to love.

When souls “see” each other.

Then love can happen.

Love nurtured grows

into something beautiful.

I saw you. I saw your soul.

I cannot help but love you.

I couldn’t stop if I tried.

And I don’t wish to try.

Now there is love. And joy in my life. And even though she lives 1600 miles from me, life is worth living again.

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Fred Basset's avatar

You are blessed to have found the other half of yourself.

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Leland Katz's avatar

I am.

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Fred Basset's avatar

I look forward to your weekly letter and the connection it brings.

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Jim Geschke's avatar

The most powerful and beneficial thing I've done in the five years since my wife died has been reconnecting with old friends. I've reached out to two old high school buddies who live across the country. Now we're best friends again, and I stay with them whenever I visit. Moreover, we touch base every two weeks by phone. I also got in touch with my first love (38 years ago) and have seen each other every time I go to the (west) coast when I visit. It has been the most fulfilling experience I've had, and I look forward to my annual visit to the coast.

You hit home with this one, Deborah.

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William Weaver's avatar

💖😊

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Bill Alstrom (MA/Maine/MA)'s avatar

Dr Hall,

I love that you keep using that word "builder". When I had corporate jobs, a big part of my time was devoted to cultivating, teaching and motivating. Sure, achieving sales and profit goals felt good. But hearing that someone I had mentored, got a promotion was the best feeling. I had helped build a career.

Mentoring is helping. As one who finally "fully retired", I had a brief period of identity crisis. Then I realized I could keep "helping" as before. Not for the big bucks anymore. But by volunteering. Still at it. And never, ever lonely as a result.

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Malcolm J McKinney's avatar

I posted a song

The Church of the Moment on 12/5/24

about encounters out of the house.

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Jim Sanders's avatar

Schopenhauer opined that one is only truly free when alone. Further, he opined that those who see reality spend more time alone and the more time alone one can better see reality. At least that is what I think I got from him but could be wrong.

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