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Aww thank you so much for the kind words BlueSkiez -- they were really lovely. I promise I will work to do so.
It's like being mute and having no words. But then one day finding you can speak again!

I have really been moved by a few things that seemed to speak to this.
One was the "The Shape of Water", where the woman was mute and basically overlooked, living on the margins. This is very much like my last lifetime, LOL...cept it was in the village and not in a modern city from mid 20th century like in the film. And I could relate to the feeling of being silenced inside myself.

The other is the investigative drama (Korean but subtitled) called "The Stranger". The main character is principled but had to get some weird surgery as a kid which lobotomised him from his feelings...and his parents couldn't really cope, so they are distant. The drs discuss privately that they cut a bit out of the part of the brain that makes us human, so that we can feel. So, he has to learn how to find his own connections to his heart and to others and he finally begins to figure it out as he gets to know others more deeply. However I happen to know this damage is equally caused by a shattered heart centre, what is truly meant by "heartbreak", and not just by a lobotomy or partial lobotomy (LOL!). I think the implication is that his heart centre was also shattered by all this as a kid, and it's also that part that is also healing as he finds his way back to himself.

Yer...good stuff. Good to be back, even if it's a bit in and out My sea legs are wobbly but I'll find them.

Peace & blessings
7L