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Depression: Why We Push People Away blurtitout.org/2018/02/08/dep… via @blurtalerts

@KZ_UTAustin Amazing!

@E_Carlen Sending you warmth from CA

Monday morning when you have a chronic illness.

@E_Carlen My sweet biologist husband has gone almost a year now but I’m still finding unknown specimens in the freezer. It used to gross me out - now I love it - wish he were still here to put plastic bags of roadkill, lizard toes and unidentified organisms in our freezer. I cherish it all

Anyone I date must be 100% ok with an entire shelf of the [home] freezer dedicated to specimens.

This is the year of “Would-be” Happy “would-be” 61st Birthday Dear Barry💕😘❤️🌸💕

@KZ_UTAustin Thank you, Kelly❤️

I had to remove jewelry for a routine medical appointment; now at home looking at my wedding ring that I’ve worn for over 32 years (including since B died 7 months ago). I’m staring at it trying to decide whether to put it back on, or if it’s now time to stop wearing it💔

One of the ways in which grief is so hard is that so much mental energy goes into thinking about questions like that (last post)💔

I feel clobbered by grief lately, like I’m going backward in the grief process - and I know intellectually that grief is not linear. I just learned there’s a name for this: Six Month Syndrome. I’m so there😢

@ConnectionsHope Friendships change and it’s okay to let go of some of them as others begin to feel more meaningful for where you’re at.

What is the wisest advice you were ever given about grief? I’ll start: “Just be gentle with yourself.”

I miss this man everyday. Coming up on my would-be 32nd wedding anniversary ❤️❤️❤️

To whoever taped this on Barry’s office door: Thank you! It brought me comfort as I passed through the empty halls of Coastal Bio building yesterday 🦎💗🦎💗🦎💗

Grief doesn’t get easier, just heavier as the loss sinks in. He’s gone but not forgotten. This song says it well for me this Sunday morning: Hey Hey My My, Neil Young, live, acoustic, stereo youtube.com/playlist?list=… via @YouTube

@drpeterblundell Resistance- what is that???

I am wondering 💭 if #TherapistsConnect had any therapy words they don’t like? This thread is also v amusing .

Another good article about Barry - just published: cityonahillpress.com/2021/04/19/how…

We lost someone great when B left. I feel so sad for all of us. youtu.be/gR_4bXDDmVA