Dear Joanna:

Is there anyone at all taking care of you while you are sick, making you soup or hot tea…or are you all alone? Since you are sick and work is overwhelming, should you take a few days off from work?

“This one memory stuck in my head.. little kitten, me in a car with my mother, and this kitten meowing and screaming, me leaving this kitten on the street and driving away with my mother. I feel like I cannot move on with my life because of this. I cannot live with those memories anymore, it’s exhausting. All I had, all my childhood, my home, everything was lost that day…  I think of the cat I had to leave on the street, opened the car door and leave him because he was screaming too much, I don’t remember exactly…. probably decided (me or my mother) that better to leave him and take him with us…“-

– Joanna, isn’t this precious, meowing, screaming kitten left behind so many years ago… isn’t it you? Isn’t it you who desperately needed a refuge: a safe, warm place, to be taken care of gently… consistently gently and lovingly?

What if you figuratively go back to where the kitten was left, and pick her up, take her with you and take good care of her… take really good care of the long-ago lost Joanna?

anita