What's happening in your world?

[Farseer]

Recent temperatures have gone down to -22.6 degrees, but they have balanced around -8 to -9 the last day or so. Quite comfortable levels.

I freeze when it’s 22.6 degrees!!!

Well, I may finally have made a friend…And I'm finding out we have quite some things in common.

That’s fantastic news, AR, and sounds very promising! There's something truly special about getting to know someone and being on the cusp of a new friendship...hmm, I don't know...the feeling of hope?

Meanwhile, other circumstances have forced me to cut another tie to the past…

…Ah well. I find solace in both old and new friends, but it's still a bitter feeling.)

I consider myself a bit of a “burning bridges expert” but, in my experience, it’s never nice no matter the circumstance, or the relief felt thereafter. I always feel ‘less’ somehow. Interesting that the main reason (excuse?!) I give myself for burning a bridge is to "protect myself from further hurt" and yet the burning process is painful to the extreme and, yes, the bitterness remains (and sometimes even manages to magnify itself!).

Luckily I have lots of bridges to get through so it may be a while yet before I've managed to burn them all...and by then I'd have no doubt built some new ones!