My friend Michelle (my first blogeny!) has been writing about transitional emotions. She and I are usually fairly empathetic about things, but rarely are we this in sync.

There are lots of changes afoot in my personal life right now - some current, some about-to-happen, and some due to occur in about a year. Thus far, these changes have been absolutely for the better. There's nothing that I would un-do. But in spite of that, it's been a very emotional time for me. Some of the new, good things have dredged up memories of old, bad things, and I've had to move through them in order to heal a bit. I've been doing some crying, but it's not the kind of crying one should stifle. It's the kind to stay with and move through, because I invariably come out in a better place on the other side.

Fortunately, I've had the best kind of support during all of this from people who are willing to just sit with me and my strange little ways. Most of them aren't fully aware of what's going on with me, but they're willing to be there just the same. I've had friends to go to lunch with and friends to go to movies with and friends to plant herbs with and friends who make me milkshakes and just quietly check on me. There's a wonderful amount of love in my life right now, a sturdy web that all these folks wove just for me to fall into. And I'm thinking that maybe the best thing I can do is to be very, very still, right in the middle of it all.