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Hi everyone I hope you are doing fabulously well. I wanted to just tell you briefly what I'm doing all those hours you don't hear from me besides living my life as compassionately and joyfully as possible.

It has been an abundant year so far, it's only February,

and I am managing what I call abundance management is when you have so many things going on

but they're all good things but it is a lot to juggle and that's what's happening right now and I want to share with you everything that's happening. I also want to thank all of you who've reached out to me in response to my sharing my stories about the situation with my mother. My mother is in New Jersey. I am in California and she

was moved into a nursing home last year because her primary caregiver, her boyfriend,

because my mother fell in love at age 75 or so, and he fell and broke

his ankle and broke his shoulder and once he recovered it just still made sense to keep my mother in this

wonderful nursing home that we found really truly a gift and everything you

know was intense I was able to sell her condo, which was just a ton of work.

And just a few weeks ago, I get a call that her boyfriend was in a motorcycle accident because at 78 he decided to buy a Harley-Davidson.

And so thank goodness he's okay.

He really could have been killed in this accident.

He broke eight ribs. He broke his collarbone, his clavicle, his leg, his arm in another place, and he lost his spleen. So he is now in an intensive physical therapy place. He cannot, he's not mobile.

And I will be going back to New Jersey again, but it has just been insane, but I am so grateful that having had that experience we had

that call did not trigger a whole other series of emergency visits and trying to find out where to how to care for my mother and so I'm very

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