Happy late birthday, Julie! I’m just days behind, so I found this helpful and reassuring. Thank you. My melancholy has been fueled by the ridiculous presidential race situation this year. The Kamala Harris/Tim Walz ticket has generated genuine joy and huge relief!!
Julie!!! I can relate so much! Thanks for putting this out in the universe! Having just had a birthday, I realized that I’ve been depressed for the last few. I think I’ve been low key depressed for a while now. I have a couple of similar toolkit items. Exercise is big for me and I couldn’t survive the workweek without it. Service is huge. Helping people along their cancer journey fulfills me in a way I cannot explain except maybe to you. I’m always trying to create things to look forward to but they seem fewer and farther between these days when I am so damn tired. It’s a shame the distance is so great otherwise I would be in your office like clockwork. I feel like our differences in life and thought would help me sort out a few things. I’ve tried before with someone but it felt strangely awkward and lonely. I ended up babbling on about things I didn’t even care to talk about. So in the meantime, I will read your lovely posts and thoughts and glean what I can from them. Happy Birthday and Congrats on 143+ days!!
Jules, welcome to our 60th year. I feel your words deeply. I do disagree that it is too late to upend everything and carve a new path Laura Ingalls Wilder, Yuichiro Miura, Estelle Getty (Golden Girls) all achieved their fame after the age of 60. Heck, your Aussie Western Singer, Smoky Dawson, cut his first album at 92. There are many things that aren't part of the path but there are so many yet to be explored.
If worse, comes to worse we can form a group like the Green Glove Gang (Netflix) and right the wrongs of the world!
Happy 60th know that you are loved and your words are echoing over the pond!
Thanks for putting that out there Julie ❤️ Every year a particular depression comes in just before my birthday then just as reliably leaves shortly after. Weirdly I have doctor and flight attendant (why??!) regret too ( socialite, no!) ! But i don't think it has anything to do with that, or aging. Just knocks you around then leaves.
Happy late birthday, Julie! I’m just days behind, so I found this helpful and reassuring. Thank you. My melancholy has been fueled by the ridiculous presidential race situation this year. The Kamala Harris/Tim Walz ticket has generated genuine joy and huge relief!!
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Julie!!! I can relate so much! Thanks for putting this out in the universe! Having just had a birthday, I realized that I’ve been depressed for the last few. I think I’ve been low key depressed for a while now. I have a couple of similar toolkit items. Exercise is big for me and I couldn’t survive the workweek without it. Service is huge. Helping people along their cancer journey fulfills me in a way I cannot explain except maybe to you. I’m always trying to create things to look forward to but they seem fewer and farther between these days when I am so damn tired. It’s a shame the distance is so great otherwise I would be in your office like clockwork. I feel like our differences in life and thought would help me sort out a few things. I’ve tried before with someone but it felt strangely awkward and lonely. I ended up babbling on about things I didn’t even care to talk about. So in the meantime, I will read your lovely posts and thoughts and glean what I can from them. Happy Birthday and Congrats on 143+ days!!
Jules, welcome to our 60th year. I feel your words deeply. I do disagree that it is too late to upend everything and carve a new path Laura Ingalls Wilder, Yuichiro Miura, Estelle Getty (Golden Girls) all achieved their fame after the age of 60. Heck, your Aussie Western Singer, Smoky Dawson, cut his first album at 92. There are many things that aren't part of the path but there are so many yet to be explored.
If worse, comes to worse we can form a group like the Green Glove Gang (Netflix) and right the wrongs of the world!
Happy 60th know that you are loved and your words are echoing over the pond!
Thanks Sheila. I just turned 59 though not 60! 😻
Thanks for putting that out there Julie ❤️ Every year a particular depression comes in just before my birthday then just as reliably leaves shortly after. Weirdly I have doctor and flight attendant (why??!) regret too ( socialite, no!) ! But i don't think it has anything to do with that, or aging. Just knocks you around then leaves.
Hope the good moments grow for you.