10-23-2016, 06:42 PM
Hi everyone, from someone who's been a bit of a stranger of late! I received such a kind email from our dear Ice Wizard, on my private email account a few days back now, asking how I was, in his warm, thoughtful way, and it struck me that it had been ages since I posted here. My life has become quite a lot more busy since I started volunteering at my local hospice as a bereavement counsellor. It started off slowly enough, but little by little, I find I am giving more and more of my time, as the work is so important and genuinely so satisfying to do - which sounds an odd thing to say about dealing with issues around dying, but I think almost nothing is more important in life than that. We all die but the provision of help for people whose relatives have left them grief-stricken is really quite poor and so many bereaved folk suffer in silence. Anyway, from a slow start, I have taken on more clients now, with the resulting paperwork, always paperwork, plus bi-monthly supervision and now some group facilitating work, which tends to be in the evening. The group work is the most enjoyable, it was something I used to do in the HIV field a couple of decades ago (gosh, I AM OLD!) and it's good to get back into an area of work I used to get so much out of.
Just this little extra voluntary commitment has had the effect of trimming down my spare time - but I think of you all often and wonder how things are going for my friends here. So I just popped in to say good evening all, I hope everyone is well, and I will have a bit of a read back over the recent pages this week to catch up. Big thanks to Ice for reaching out to me.
Just this little extra voluntary commitment has had the effect of trimming down my spare time - but I think of you all often and wonder how things are going for my friends here. So I just popped in to say good evening all, I hope everyone is well, and I will have a bit of a read back over the recent pages this week to catch up. Big thanks to Ice for reaching out to me.