tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-400986193010342577.post5541893579519369313..comments2023-04-02T03:12:23.266-06:00Comments on Tales of the Phoenix: LimitationsPhoebehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07668069274859889749noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-400986193010342577.post-29502420483974644602008-06-28T17:17:00.000-06:002008-06-28T17:17:00.000-06:00Wow. What a beautiful post. I am so sorry for yo...Wow. What a beautiful post. I am so sorry for your IF struggles as well as your difficulty in planting your memorial tree. This journey is most definitely not an easy one.Lost in Spacehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07027117135940864685noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-400986193010342577.post-71922655529003813202008-06-24T07:15:00.000-06:002008-06-24T07:15:00.000-06:00This is a beautiful story and a full and rich meta...This is a beautiful story and a full and rich metaphor.<BR/><BR/>Just before we started our IVF cycle I experienced a loss and it made me aware of so may other losses I had experienced along the road to get where I was. I also planted a tree (with some help with the digging) and it was a deeply symbolic burial and place of grieving for me. <BR/><BR/>I am so glad you are listening to your heart, to your inner wisdom, and making space for yourself in this.Duffyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14610560692331066766noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-400986193010342577.post-14119271937291159682008-06-24T03:26:00.000-06:002008-06-24T03:26:00.000-06:00What a lovely post. How hard it is to know when yo...What a lovely post. How hard it is to know when you're being a sissy and just giving up (which will haunt you with regrets later on) or when you are being a hardheaded ass and need to open your eyes to reality and see that fate has something even better (though harder?) in store for you... <BR/><BR/>Italy has soooo taught me follow the path of least resistance rule. I've learned to get craftier, more creative, be more patient, change plans, outlooks, expectations because no one is meant to beat herself up for something. I used to think it was laziness on their part or that they were sad, entrenched pessimists, but I now think they have a deeper sense of what really is important in life and an intuition that fate or God or the gods have something else in mind and will always have the upper hand anyway!Geeks in Romehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01161503576591172186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-400986193010342577.post-57633003952213947402008-06-23T23:46:00.000-06:002008-06-23T23:46:00.000-06:00the rocks got in my way too -- both in the figurat...the rocks got in my way too -- both in the figurative sense with the wall I kept banging my head against, but also the literal sense with fibroids. in my case, there was no getting blood from a stone. in others, though, the most amazing things can bloom between the cracks... so hard to know which way it will go.lunahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15455301696832647867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-400986193010342577.post-83836839548403164012008-06-23T21:51:00.000-06:002008-06-23T21:51:00.000-06:00This is a beautiful post. I wish I knew what my l...This is a beautiful post. I wish I knew what my limitations are. How do you know when enough is enough?DChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12498195466936860073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-400986193010342577.post-84067866935893198752008-06-23T20:18:00.000-06:002008-06-23T20:18:00.000-06:00What a poignant metaphor, Phoebe.Dealing with IF s...What a poignant metaphor, Phoebe.<BR/><BR/>Dealing with IF seems to be a constant dance between making things happen and allowing things to happen.<BR/><BR/>Wise is the woman who knows when to make the shift.Lori Lavender Luzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15394441222262940632noreply@blogger.com