It's a heart ache

is a great song. I better look it up and learn it.

The neice in law is dealing with major stress right now. Two grandparents in the hospital. The pair should be okay but they are in their 70's and major hurt. Send prayers please. Bless the whole family but especially C2Boy, her mate, for standing right there with her.

I met a young woman I couldn't give anything but words to last week. She is so shattered and tender right now from life going sour for her and I hate not being able to help when I see a need.

There is a friend of mine who's daughter died two years ago. Deep in grief, he had to deal with his wife leaving him, remarrying and taking the house they built together. He is physically unable to work and living on the wind right now. I can't help him, either. I can only listen.

I don't know why it seems so important to me to try and lift others up. ("I don't know - Wait. - yes, I do." shout out to JC...LOL!) Yes I do. Because others carried me when I was going down. I can't pay that back with money. I can only show it to the next one who needs it.

My heart aches for those I know with no jobs, illness, losing homes, hurting those they love for no good reason and those that are standing alone.

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I have begun "sucking up the green". I saw the birds flocking the other day. It's time to store the leafy tree tunnels that line the rural roads and the deep cool of the shade, the fields of corn and beans, the wooded hill with it's endless shades of green - all to get me through the days of grey and white winter.

I have enough and more to share. The house is cool and peaceful. Today is good. But I wish sometimes that the world was an easier and more loving place for all of us to be.