Mindful Monday – Dedicated To Karen
Once again I am dedicating these words to our dear friend Karen – who has always turned a listening ear toward us and shown so many acts of kindness in the blogosphere.
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A lovely gesture for a most deserving person. Well done, Marie.
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dear pink,
thank you for reading and commenting on marie’s mindful monday, so generously dedicated to me. your kindness and caring means more than you will ever know.
love, XOXO
karen
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You’re so very welcome, Karen, and so very deserving. Your comments on my blog and every one else’s are always a highlight, and I look forward to reading every thoughtful word you write. Hope today is a good day for you. xo
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I too, am well known for these acts of kindness, and appreciate the same when I feel low.
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Dear Karen – Thoughts and prayers remain with you as you navigate these early uncertain and mind-numbing days. To say nothing of the heartbreak.
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dear lois,
i am so touched by your heartfelt message, knowing how well acquainted you are with such dreadful pain and loss, your dear daughter widowed twice. please know how grateful i am to you for your prayers and the good thoughts you are sending out for me. i FEEL them.
love, XOXO
karen
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What a lovely quote. as my thoughts and prayers are with you Karen. As always Marie you find the words when sometimes one thinks there are no words for Karen at such a difficult time.
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dear susan,
it’s true, isn’t it. even if we don’t think we have the words to express our deepest empathy for another hurting heart, just saying THOSE words is such an act of kindness. those words count, they comfort, and they touch me deeply. i am keeping your thoughts and prayers for me close to my heart, and thank you for your compassion and your love.
love, XOXO,
karen
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oh, marie,
that you dedicated that beautiful quote to me overwhelms me to tears. it’s just so generous and makes me feel that what i’ve tried to offer with my comments has come back to me many times over.
i want you to know, dear marie, as well as all the others who have taken the time to send me such loving messages of empathy and hope, that in these early and raw- feeling days of profound grief the words, thoughts, ands prayers being sent my way are treasured and kept close to my heart. hugh was a person who was born with knowing, somehow, some way, and from the place he came from before he was here – that the purpose of life is LOVE. i think he must be so happy that i feel so embraced by it from so many in our BC community.
much love and gratitude, XOXOXOXO
karen
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You are only getting back in small measure the huge amount you give out Karen – you are much loved in our community xxxxxx
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What a beautiful quote, Marie.
Warmest thoughts are with you, Karen…
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dear CMT,
that quote is so powerful and beautful. that marie posted it for me on her wonderful mindful monday is overwhelmingly kind – just like she is. and i thank you so much, too, for taking the time to read and comment to let me know you are sending me your warmest thoughts; thankfully, for all hugh and i had for over 46 years, for the struggles we endured together, and for all the incredible support from people like you, my heart is especially receptive to each and every kind and caring gesture.
love, XOXO,
karen
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hi karen,
how thoughtful you are to spend your energy to responding when i know how exhausting grieving can be. i am touched that you took the time to write me a message and so glad that marie dedicated that lovely quote to you. You both seem like special people…
And i am so very sorry for your loss.
It was a post by the Cancer Curmudgeon that said a fellow blogger was in need and to click a link to offer kind words that first brought me to your story. i posted a message to you, but then lost track of the link. i continued to think about you and hugh, and of what you have been going through, so i was grateful when i saw marie’s post.
i am so glad you have been surrounded with support — you so clearly deserve every kindness. i will continue to keep you in my thoughts, and i wish you peace in the coming days…
with loving thoughts,
Leisha xo
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Leisha, thank YOU for reaching out again to Karen – your words I know resonate with all of us who care about Karen x
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xo
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Karen, you are so loved by us all. xoxo, eileen
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oh, eileen, your comment fills me with such gratitude, it comforts me, and helps me as i am trying so desperately to find my way with my hugh so suddenly gone. i did not know that one’s eyes could manufacture so many tears, and that the exhaustion of crying with such body and mind and soul wrenching sobbing could be so consuming. i try to envision all the many expressions of love and empathy and prayers and good thoughts sent my way to grab onto to lift me up when i fall headlong into that awful and dark abyss. that raw grieving will have it’s way with me, as it is wont to do, but then there is always the light i feel being re-lit by all the goodness and kindness and love surrounding me. thank you for your love and for your kind message to me, eileen.
love. XOXO,
karen
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