My Phyle is 101

101 wonderful Humans at my side, dedicating a part of the most precious asset of our lives - TIME - to read me ...

So. Let start this tiny note with a “so”.

I opened my usual tabs this morning, “home”, “activity”, and went to create/prepare the next article, enjoying my usual beloved cafelatte, when I saw this:

My Phyle is 101. Wow! I am deeply touched! Never imagined a 101 (HUNDREDONE) humans supporting me by giving me and my words / sounds their precious time and attention, reading, listening, commenting.

What a privilege! I am deeply humbled.

THANK YOU FROM ALL THE DEPTHS OF MY SOUL.

Let me say it again, I am not here to count numbers, nor did I start my stack for any material or “perpetual growth” reason. My objective was and remains pure emotional, creative, exchange with like-minded souls. I simply needed to be heard, to get some voice, with the aim of overcoming my total emotional, mental, and other breakdowns, where I felt abandoned and left alone.

Starting to read many brilliant Stack authors here around, entering that “literary corner” indeed pulled me out of my inner “black hole”. The support coming from all of you was and is absolutely awesome.

I feel I am having a family, not by blood, but by heart and soul. A thing which I do not take for granted, hence my deepest gratitude for all your support.

I don’t know how to really thank you all for your unrestricted support and kindness.

Very special thanks goes to my very first supporters, who are also masters in community building, and who invited me at the very beginnings into their communities, to join other fantastic authors, and started actively engaging with me, which was and remains a privilege to me to the very day:

• Nora Nora In New York : an intellectual powerhouse and total freak with a heart size of several universes;

• Monica Monica A Leyva : next-level intellectual universe in seven or more dimensions, a fabulous writer, heart, and mind;

• SweetladyLove SweetladyLove : the most active volcano of the Universe spreading love, kindness, support: I still cannot fully understand the size of her amazing heart;

and then gradually all the others who came and who are now an irreplaceable part of my Phyle.

And then a special part of my heart goes to beautiful “backstage” personal friendships evolving, which is another level of blessing I am so grateful for : Nora Nora In New York, Liloo tsunimee, Mark Mark Crutchfield … and some others …

And a heartful Thank You to my n. 100, Esmari Gathering the Pieces of Me. If you don’t know Esmari → go check her writing, you will not be sorry.

To all of you who read me, engage, communicate:

• I appreciate enormously You giving me your valuable time

• I am grateful for your support and building this tiny community which I call my Phyle

• I am grateful You giving me strength to continue, to learn jointly with you, and get better (I started writing from the scratch, my heart ached, therefore. I was never writing poems before)

• I LOVE YOU ALL: my heart is a mosaic and every single one of you owns a piece of it in my heart.

God bless you all. You are music to my heart.

THANK YOU.

Me, Myself and Esa the Cat

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