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Donna's avatar

What a wonderful remembrance! Thanks so much for sharing this piece of yourself.

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Kate McDermott's avatar

So much more to come!

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Julie's avatar

I just adore that photo! Thank you with sharing so much of yourself with us. I would love to have a massage once a week. I have neck problems, apparently due to an aging skeleton that has caused some cartilage to disappear. I was going once a month for a fabulous massage, but that stopped in March, 2020, as did most outside things. I would love to start to go back, but I'm not quite ready yet. My massage therapist, who I love and would go to in a New York minute, left the state to care for her very ill mother. So I had to find someone new and I had just managed to say "hello" via email and make an appointment, when Covid came and shut me up inside. Soon - I hope, but I do worry about the Delta variant.

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Kate McDermott's avatar

I haven't done much in the way of self-care until now. I wish I had done more before. Better late than never!

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Julie's avatar

Yes indeed.

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Pat Willard's avatar

Beautiful writing, Kate!

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Kate McDermott's avatar

Thank you so much, Pat. I'm kinda writing my way around the edges. Time will tell what it turns into.

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Pat Willard's avatar

Well that's how you get there

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Erika Esau's avatar

Lovely, Kate! Thanks for sharing, and the photo, too. I have just come from having a massage. I wish I could afford to have one a week! This one was because I'm having knee replacement surgery next week--so I pulled out all the stops, and saw the chiropractor, acupuncturist, and masseuse this week! A real splurge.

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Kate McDermott's avatar

I wish I could, too. Good luck on your surgery. May it be easy and your recovery complete.

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Erika Esau's avatar

Thank you. I'll hope to make a pie from your book when I recover!

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Janis Manny Leonard's avatar

What wonderful memories! I love your newsletters and look forward to each one.

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Kate McDermott's avatar

Thank you, Janis! Going down memory lane is always a trip. Yes?

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