The 2 bags of clothes for a FreeCycler are leaving this afternoon. She requested I break the one huge bag into two easier-to-carry bags, so it was a great opportunity to fold a few that had been jammed in there... and revisit how much I had depended on those items for official business.... some real favorites that felt good on and looked as good as I could look in them.... [sniff] but buhBYE!

I had a great pep talk over lunch with my HS buddy, about who this new Susan is-- the one who doesn't run out of gas because her thryoid is quietly killing her? She remembers who I used to be! And reminded me that not one iota of that person is gone. She cut 50 years of bad conditioning/negative selftalk down into a much shorter timeframe, because she was able to help me spot when it really went totally out of control. So we ended with a good sense of where I am going-- and it's nice to know someone else sees me going there, too.

~Susan