Interesting article on writing thank you notes, gratitude and our brains :) https://siliconcanals.com/s-t-psychology-says-people-who-still-handwrite-thank-you-notes-instead-of-texting-dont-just-have-good-manners-they-process-gratitude-at-a-neurological-depth-that-changes-how-they-experience-relationsh/

I wrote my first letter of “loss” to my use to be BFF and the pain of losing caused. At first I wasn’t going to mail it but I decided I would. Getting started was difficult but once I started the words just flowed. I don’t want a response and will be disappointed if I get one. I want to move on.

I just heard a story about Love. A young couple in their 20's fall in love and get married. Not too far into it, the wife gets MS and it's very debilitating - and 30 years of illness. When she finally made the decision that she no longer wanted to have treatment and just wanted nature to take it's course, she told the Dr that she wanted her husband to find a new wife, and she wanted to pick her. So she helped her husband create and post a dating profile. Of course not many other women were interested in getting involved in this story! But one decided to go for it because they really connected, she connected with the wife...eventually she moved in with the husband and wife - sharing a bedroom with the husband. She said it wasn't all roses, but the ailing wife became her best friend. An amazing story! I was crying so hard at the end!!! Wow!!!

I am grateful for God allowing me to make another trip around the sun!