I guess we all have magic powers - I say my black dog from Texas’s magic powers is finding shade. Last time I wrote, I wrote about the weather & how I tend to bring good weather with me whenever I go anywhere. I guess that’s my magic power. Someone I once knew swore he didn’t burn out lightbulbs. When this person left my life, all of my lightbulbs burned out almost simultaneously & continued doing so for about a month. I guess that really is his magic power.
This morning, I got a hurtful message from someone. It cut me deeply. I was surprised, aghast and deeply shocked at the vitriol directed at me in this message. I sat in my own shock for a while and felt like I was required to reply. I was able to come up with the most kind reply I could think of and write it clearly. I sent the message.
And then I just started crying. I felt so personally hurt by the vitriol that, from my perspective, came out of nowhere. So I cried in my hotel room, here in Prince Edward Island. My dogs came and comforted me. They were so sweet. I love that dogs are pure love. “Dog is Love.” Dogs just want their owners to be happy. And my dogs put their paws on me and looked into my eyes as I cried - my face contorted in deep grief and sorrow.
Then I realized that it was nearly 11AM and I needed to check out of my hotel. So I put the dogs in the car, went back to my room & hurriedly grabbed my things so I could check out.
When I got back to the car (from the room), carrying my stuff, it was lightly raining. I put my violin in the car, and the rain increased. As I put more things away, the rain got heavier.
I got in my car after it was all put away, and the real rain started. It’s a solid, constant rain. The kind that would make me bring out my umbrella.
Welcome to Prince Edward Island - where it probably rains a whole lot.
Road trips have a way of giving us time to process all the stuff in our head.
And today, it seems, I will be processing grief over lost relationships.
Do you remember the TV show, “Mork and Mindy,” with Robin Williams and Pam Dawber? I loved that show as a kid. I hope it goes into reruns some day.
🌈 That show brought me so much happiness and joy as a kid. 🌈
There is a scene in one of the episodes that I remember so clearly, all these years later - something like 45 years later - where Mindy says, “I like the rain. No one can see you cry.” And she leaves her home and goes out to walk in the rain just as the episode closes. as I sat here, in the car, in the rain, crying, I remembered that scene from “Mork and Mindy.”
“I like it when it rains. No one can see you cry.”
It’s not lost on me that my last newsletter talked about how I bring good weather with me. And now, today, when I am in deep grief, it seems the sky is weeping with me.
Thank you for reading.
Time to get on the road to either find good lobster and oysters to eat (thankfully, I did get a few genuine PEI oysters last night!) or move on from PEI via New Brunswick to Quebec.
Sorry you we through that. I loved Mork and Mindy as I kid and I think I remember that episode too. This post was so beautiful written
May rain and the solace of an open road do good for your heart and soul today ❤️❤️❤️