I am so happy to find this group and join you. This morning I am grateful that, in the last week, I am beginning to feel a deepening acceptance of and peace with a twelve-year-long life-altering illness that ended three years ago. I am grateful that, this weekend, I had a chance to reconnect with a very dear friend who has been out of the country and also to meet his parents and welcome them into the circle of our friendship. I am grateful that the hard work I’ve done to put my world back in order and rebuild it is beginning to bear fruit; I was able to welcome my friend’s parents into my home, which is now a place of order, peace, beauty, and light. Thank you all!