Dear Juanita:

You are welcome, friend. It is very meaningful to me that you trust me. Trust is a precious, precious quality that I don’t want to undo, or to not be worthy of it.

I am glad you are finding ways to  combat the humid heat and that you “found some very key information regarding (your) mental/ emotional problems” in very old texts.

You mentioned Khalil Gibran- what I remember most about his work, what stuck to my mind many years ago, when I was very young, was this fascinating thing that he wrote: “Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you”.

“Sometimes a little flame temporarily appears, but I realise now that I have actually spent the past 18 years in functional depression. I know I’m not telling you what occurred back then. I am not sure if I can bring myself to write about it”-

– you don’t have to. You can tell me what you want to tell me, when you do. You wrote that you are expecting your dog back from the vet, I wonder what the vet said about your dog’s condition.

anita