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Katharine Hill's avatar

After awaking naturally I’m now standing with my hot lemon water and reading this on my phone at 5 a.m. on the east coast of America. A couple of spellings lead me to think that you’re English, but I’ll wait until later to research. Meanwhile, thank you for this incredibly thoughtful post today.

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alice-ann hoefkens's avatar

Thank you for such a generous comment. I love that you’re there and I’m here (UK) and yet we’re connected and I, too, had my hot water and lemon. Have a beautiful day.❤️

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Judy Hobbis's avatar

This time of the year seems to go hand in hand with thought. A retreating inwards, a seeking, a meaning to it all … but here’s the thing and it’s a personal one we are the thing. It’s us, we are here, we try and often fail, we go again, we fall, we cry we rise again. Each time we learn something else about ourselves it never ceases until

we cease to exist. That’s what I love about life the never ending journey. Cherish it all ♥️

Wow this might be nonsense but it’s my nonsense.

You have a lovely gift Alice keep putting pen to paper and writing it all down. It touches people and that’s your thing x

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alice-ann hoefkens's avatar

Not nonsense at all. It’s a beautiful, joyful piece of yourself, of your thinking. So glad to be sharing this life, this time, our time here together. Thank you for reading and for kind words.❤️

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Jamie Millard's avatar

Thanks! Blessings to you as we live into those questions. Those truths. We can’t go back. We can get lost in the real colours. Keep writing. We need you. Merry Christmas. 🙏❤️

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alice-ann hoefkens's avatar

Aaah thank you Jamie and merry Christmas to you. I hoped it didn’t have a ‘bah humbug’ tone to it, not my intention to deglitter for people but so need a Winter landscape on life to feel as rich as the froth.♥️

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Jamie Millard's avatar

Never a humbug. I felt the song of the robin and those decorations of children. I felt the world smiling and blowing a winnowing kiss between the words that wisdom wrote. 🙏❤️

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alice-ann hoefkens's avatar

Now I’m crying… 😘❤️heart touched.

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Mell Darlington's avatar

Dear Alice, I opened the folder I have for you on my pc intending to re-read and this time complete the reading of your latest sub-stack piece. Instead I found this one which I must have missed entirely when the email first arrived. You know me, I can't talk much about feelings and spirituality, I keep everything deep inside usually but reading this piece relates to much of what I feel about how we live now, as you know. Also, it makes me feel closer to you.

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