Since getting back home in California from my fun, healing, liberating, and empowering vacation in Colorado & road trip, there have been mixed feelings for me.
Loneliness is always looming and is intensified both by the cold, wet, foggy weather where I live and by the limited social life I have so far built here.
But exercising, getting back to work, and seeing some friends is helping. And despite the cold, unwelcoming weather, I have received a warm welcome from several persons here: a friend from the swimming-pool eager to meet up with me ASAP and very supportive of my recent “coming out” (which has truly contributed immensely to me feeling accepted and loved just as I am); climbing already this weekend with the new “climbing buddies” I just started connecting with in June; dinner with one of my closest friends here, at her place. And that evening, there were two particularly sweet moments. I had just got home from my road trip that afternoon and for dinner I immediately visited this close friend, who has two daughters. First, while we were getting dinner ready, the younger girl made me a little gift with some craft work that she had just been learning at summer camp — so spontaneously… Then, as I was saying good-bye/good-night to the kids, the older girl asked me, “When will we see you again?”
WOW. That simple, straightforward, sweet question went straight to my heart and filled me with warmth and joy. I went home feeling very loved that night.
The Little Prince and the Fox 