I was reflecting on the last year of heartache in my family, with my spouse’s cancer diagnosis, my brother’s suicide, and my sister’s recent breast cancer diagnosis. Through therapy, I have been learning how to listen to my feelings, and in turn it’s helped me listen to other people’s feelings. Just yesterday we had another scare that perhaps my spouse’s cancer might be reoccurring. I reflected on how I had learned to listen to feelings instead of trying to “fix” the problem, and how I had done that in our conversations around the scans last night. As I walked off the trail after watching the sun rise, I found this quilted heart in a pine bush on the side of the trail. Out of curiosity, I looked up the website on my phone. I normally would have left it for the next person, but the site told me that it was for me. I brought it home to place on my desk next to photos of my family. Thank you for this beautiful project, it brightened my day and felt so right in the moment.
