Thanks for your words. I am not writing about myself in this, alone. I am writing about the collective of women who I see in the world...the ones that bring me the most grief. The ones we have lost and the ones who are trying to find themselves after their own losses. I don't have kids leaving and coming back. My kids have found their way to make a life for themselves that I admire and support from here, where I am. They are adults..all but one. So I get to be their friend now... I hope! As well as their confidant and mother, stable as I can hold the foundation for them. I'm doing my best. I hear the collective grief you write of. I know it is endless.