keep the kleenex close by

Change number three... Everything touches me in a much more meaningful way. I cannot usually get through a greeting card, Oprah episode, or Susan Sarandon movie without getting "a little verklempt". Wow, sometimes just a phone chat with my mom or sister can provoke the tears. I have always been a heart on her sleeves kind of girl but this is something far more intense. I am touched by cause and effect out there in the world in a way I never was before. I guess it is more of a vested interest but also that I believe the role of mother has brought me more spiritually closer to the universe and all its beings. I have not just come from it now but have given back some and that connection generates such strong emotion. I tend to like this change, it has brought more compassion out of me and more anger... the right mix to facilitate change around me where I can. I feel more joy and more pain. I cry more but I laugh more too! Thank God, I am alive!!