Check in - are you okay?

For everyone who needs a hug just now. It's OK to be not OK. Reach out if you need to, we all need support sometimes.

Thank you.  There's a lot of stuff I feel is too much to say to almost anyone .. argh.

(Besides gardening therapy, I have had some good counselling experiences: where you trust your counsellor, you get out things rattling around in your head, knowing they have professional support too.)

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Nancy Reading wrote:For everyone who needs a hug just now. It's OK to be not OK. Reach out if you need to, we all need support sometimes.

I am finding right now that pretty much everyone I talk to lately could use a hug.
Things are hard lately for many people. A lot of folks I know have taken a hit work-wise, and saying that things could be worse is true, but only goes so far. I know we have a lot of time zones and different situations but I'd be glad to talk to anyone who needs a vent about things. Or maybe even just a coffee hangout and shoot the breeze.
If you're having a hard time right now, I'm rooting for you. Hang in there.

For those of you trying hard to stay away from the news, please think positive, hugging thoughts to the citizens of the area of the Philippines who are going through an earthquake swarm.

In the past 24 hours, Indonesia has had 248 quakes of magnitudes above 2 and up to 6.5

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Somehow, the risk of facing that outweighs any petty issues I've been having with deer, bunnies, and wall lizards. Luckily I spent some time this weekend with my Daughter in Law and got a week's worth of hugs. They really do help!