Dear Cali Chica:

I felt overwhelmed because I felt for a moment my own overwhelm at my personal experience with my mother, as a child. And I do feel empathy for you. Your pain today, your anger this morning, is equal in intensity and extent to the pain that your mother inflicted on you.

“life WAS helping her. Everything was her. everything. Even when I thought it wasn’t- it sure was. her”- nothing you ever wrote in your threads is as spot on and as meaningful as this, only a couple of lines and everything is in these two lines. (Two lines on my screen, I have it on 150% magnification).

These two lines, when you have the time, anytime… develop these two lines more, but do so from a calm, kind of resigned state of mind, not from an arguing/ debating intellectual place.

anita