tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978857.post8022894778756137639..comments2023-05-29T02:28:06.297-07:00Comments on Walk With Me...: 8/2/11sunflowerkat http://www.blogger.com/profile/11643564072168293568noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978857.post-5075498945473199432011-08-14T18:39:17.820-07:002011-08-14T18:39:17.820-07:00Hi Kat, I read your journal for years and still ch...Hi Kat, I read your journal for years and still check it from time to time hoping you've posted as I've wondered how you were. I remember well the loss of your sister and nephew and your struggle to make the transition to Long Island. I was pleased to see you are blogging again but I'm sorry the news is not good. The daily stress you are dealing with must be horrendous. I hope things turn around for you soon.Stacyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02521504653710527863noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978857.post-13476016554300822432011-08-13T13:34:11.916-07:002011-08-13T13:34:11.916-07:00I'm so sorry things have been so rough over th...I'm so sorry things have been so rough over these past 6 years. I remember very well when you lost your sister. We all felt your pain so deeply. When you moved to Long Island, we all felt your heart breaking. I had hoped and prayed for you that things would get easier as time went on, but life often has other plans, as you well know. I hope that things will become easier, that your husband will find the right job, that relocation will bring you back to the community you love and you will find the peace and joy that you deserve.<br />kathkathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08602883597772387316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978857.post-27345156516431417752011-08-09T08:50:52.827-07:002011-08-09T08:50:52.827-07:00Kat, you said more here in these few paragraphs th...Kat, you said more here in these few paragraphs than I've said in the past year. I can fully understand all that you've been going through, and I can definitely fully identify with your pain. I wholeheartedly encourage you to write and to share your thoughts. There are many people here who always keep you in their hearts.<br />Writing has always been a great emotional catharsis for me. It's one of the few things that keeps me going.Jonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02619128793632680659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978857.post-9418516618246309302011-08-09T05:57:01.495-07:002011-08-09T05:57:01.495-07:00Oh Kat. I am sitting here with tears streaming dow...Oh Kat. I am sitting here with tears streaming down my face. I am still "with you," indeed so much of what you say here in this post hits home so very hard. My past five years have been very similar to much that you talk about in this post, and I can feel every fibre of your pain, loss, grief, frustration. I don't talk about it, or blog about it, and I have transferred my internet connections to fairly impersonal political/environmental postings on Facebook - but I am so glad you shared all this here on this journal. It brings me close to you again, and I'm just sorry not to have been here all along. I don't blog much because I just don't feel that I can share what is truly in my life, my heart and soul - it is too dark, too depressed - who would want to read it? But maybe I'm wrong about that - I DID want to read what you wrote, and will continue to visit here and share your life. I have no words of comfort or wisdom, just of friendship and caring - I am walking with you again, Kat, please know I'm here.marigolds2https://www.blogger.com/profile/07683286608066261340noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978857.post-23419537048495790022011-08-09T03:42:44.617-07:002011-08-09T03:42:44.617-07:00I am sending love and a hug.... was thinking of yo...I am sending love and a hug.... was thinking of you with the date and want you to know that you are loved by so many.Judith HeartSonghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11950132362232278014noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978857.post-66852374803163741892011-08-08T18:17:57.263-07:002011-08-08T18:17:57.263-07:00I keep thinking "this could so easily be us&q...I keep thinking "this could so easily be us", what you have been going through with Aaron's two job losses. Another reminder for us to be thankful for the jobs we have, as much as we might hate them some days!<br /><br />Losing your sister and nephew is the most horrible loss I could imagine. Like most 50+ year olds, I've had my family losses too, including pets that were as much family as the humans -hugs to you when you lost Berkeley last year.<br /><br />I agree with the others here -- it IS hard to blog when life hands us lemons, and yet, at those times in our lives is when writing about our experiences can sometimes be cathartic and help us get through them quicker, a better person, along with the help and hugs of other bloggers.<br /><br />Hang in there, and I'm sending as many virtual hugs along with my comment as I can cram in here.Girl Tornadohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07289862625817473671noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978857.post-47983189087899968022011-08-07T10:06:42.512-07:002011-08-07T10:06:42.512-07:00Kat ... I wish I could reach through and give you ...Kat ... I wish I could reach through and give you a hug. Despite all that is going on in your life, you give me hope with your strength. I realize that while you may not see yourself as a strong woman right now as you are in the middle of many changes and unrest which leaves one feeling weak. You ARE a strong woman who has endured so much.<br /><br />I've done very little blogging myself - for many of the same reasons. I feel my life is spiraling out of control and I've yet to find/ get a grasp on that life raft that is out there .... somewhere. <br /><br />As I read the comments of the other women here who also support and love you, and are going through tough times of their own, I started thinking that maybe we ought to start a blogging support group where we can lean on each other for support and simply knowing we are NOT alone.<br /><br />I wish we lived closer, I'd love to walk with you and our cameras. Talk if we wanted or just walk quietly in thought and photograph the beauty around us.<br /><br />Much love to you Kat!Monicahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12840809036588436520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978857.post-34568142733141430472011-08-04T21:13:24.546-07:002011-08-04T21:13:24.546-07:00Oh, Kat. When it seemed that everything in my life...Oh, Kat. When it seemed that everything in my life collapsed, I wasn't able to blog or really even write any more. Though it's still as tentative and sporadic as it can be, blogging again is helping me heal. What's been going on for years is still going on, and accepting that is so hard. Just write, blog it out. You have friends here who care.Cynthiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11641264346663533706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978857.post-54968377162243048942011-08-03T20:16:49.570-07:002011-08-03T20:16:49.570-07:00oh, my dear, dear friend. my heart cries for you. ...oh, my dear, dear friend. my heart cries for you. I can't imagine being in your position, I know how hard it's been - the tremendous loss, homesickness, uncertainty, all of it. I don't think I'd be weathering it as well as you have. even with all of my troubles, I haven't been able to pour out my heart in my blog or anywhere else, and I am even at the point where I've stopped talking about it with anyone (and I know that's not at all healthy.) I wish so much that we lived close enough to get together for a tea or a walk several times a week...I wish that so very much. it's been almost a year since I've seen your lovely face. I miss you, and I love you and think of you often...hope you feel that and know you're never alone. xoxo PhinCindyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11534643968545932541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978857.post-4971461967117336132011-08-03T20:16:26.417-07:002011-08-03T20:16:26.417-07:00I wish things had gone better for you, Kat. Losing...I wish things had gone better for you, Kat. Losing Meg just wasn't fair. PaulAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978857.post-44641717490171400852011-08-03T16:48:08.046-07:002011-08-03T16:48:08.046-07:00Kat--As much as I know my readers get a little tir...Kat--As much as I know my readers get a little tired of me moaning about my life...I KNOW my blog is the only place I can take my woes. This is EXACTLY what the blog community was created for. It is what it does best: lets you pour out your heart and soul to people who know you and care about you in a way that the folks you know in your "real" life simply cannot. Your "real" family, friends, acquaintances could not help but feel somehow resonsible for the feelings you have. They might resent or try to "fix" you. We here in the Land of Blog read, sympathize, and do not judge. I honestly do not know what I would have done without my blog and the people I have "met" in the process of writing it. They have been my sounding board, my psychologists, my anchor...I am convinced that blogging probably saved my life. At the very least, it saved my sanity.<br /><br />So don't say that you can't blog until you get all this emotional clutter out of the way. That is exactly the stuff that you <i>should</i> be writing about, in my opinion.<br /><br />Whatever you decide, you always know I will be here for you whenever you write, whatever you write.<br /><br />L :-]Lisa :-]https://www.blogger.com/profile/02237889098638895390noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978857.post-67026418387612658102011-08-03T08:09:30.132-07:002011-08-03T08:09:30.132-07:00one thing I love about having a journal is it'...one thing I love about having a journal is it's my own private place to let all my cares out...no one in my real world comes here so I can be free to express myself. you have been through so much that I do not understand how you have the strength. The saying God doesn't give you more than you can handle I am sure leaves you to say ENOUGH! already! I pray that God grants you a breakthrough in you and your husband's life, so you can have the peace to so deserve.Rosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04481911261236382752noreply@blogger.com