As a newer member, I just want to tell you that you have made some great contributions and that I really appreciate your style. You have consistently said good stuff. I bet it won't take nine years for you to get some kind of little icon, ahem.

You just encapsulated the idea of loving kindness, which for some is the hardest thing to grasp, let alone practice. For some of us who have endured adversity it comes a little easier, but still it is a alien concept in this greed culture. Good on you. I'm grateful to hear this.

I am grateful today for having the opportunity next week to begin doing some somatic work with a new provider and also to meet a new therapist with whom I hope I will be doing some EMDR. I have tried to engage like this before but was unable to do the work out of the fear of the discovery that will happen and not having the support network to hold me when I fall apart, but I have worked very hard to put this in place and finally have it.

I am grateful today to be finally know that I deserve my next tattoo, which I will be giving myself this week with needle and thread in a personal ceremony and ritual. A friend will document the process I will be doing the Surivor's Mark, a semicolon on my wrist under a self-harm scar.

Life is life, and life is good.