Hello dear friends,
I have typed this whole thing out twice now, the first one was too long and rambly and I feel sure none of you would have made it to the end. This morning after several weeks of some of you telling me to set up a page where you could support me if you wanted to I finally gave in. I expected about 10 or so people at a stretch would donate a couple of dollars each and that would be lovely and that would be that.
My expectations were exceeded above and beyond that within the first few minutes of this page being set up! I am overwhelmed and verklempt ( god I love that word) at the generosity of spirit and the dare I say it LOVE that I felt sent my way today. As those of you who have known me for a while know I am despite appearances a fairly private person and tend to just slog on through the quagmire of life but recently it is becoming harder and harder.
Asking was hard but I did it anyway. I know we are ALL in the midst of unparalleled and unprecedented times and most of us are feeling exhausted and confused, pandemics are EXHAUSTING and heartbreaking. The news of today's new community case numbers hit all of us pretty hard I am sure and who knows where we will be even by the end of next week. That made your generosity even more lovely because we are all in the same boat ( just some of us are paddling a bit harder right now)
“Kindness is doing what you can, where you are, with what you have.”
Every one of you can go about the rest of your evening/day now knowing that if nothing else you did one good thing ( yes that is still my catch phrase) for someone and for that I am so grateful. I intend to keep this page up and will tweak it. I will set it up so that you can become a member if you WISH to do so and I am still in the process of deciding what that will look like.
Do you want streams of consciousness emails once a month? Maybe I can keep all future pictures of Cooper here and exclusive ( the older he gets the more I think I will not be posting him to Twitter) Maybe you can give me some feedback.
I am going to wrap this up now as yet again it is too long but once again thank you from the bottom of my little bruised and somewhat battered heart, you are all gems.
WendyW
PS this is not spell checked or edited so I am sorry but hitting send now anyway.