I wrote this in January regarding another life event. Just wanted to share it now with you. *Take my hand, you are not alone,* Standing here, Leaning into one another’s eyes, Feeling breath, Seeing pain, Allowing all we wish to change, Riding waves together, Remembering how it has been, Reflecting how it can be, Choosing again, Our hands joining hearts, Life is here, Loving us, With every breath, We are not alone. Life did not die, It holds us with so much love, Allowing, I receive your hand, Standing here We are not alone. Skye Hirst 1/25/24 *Skye HIrst, PhD* **Just-in-Time* Conversations* *jitcc.org* **"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response.**** ****In our response lies our growth and our freedom***.*” *Viktor Frankl* **"Nature ever flows, stands never still. Motion or change is her mode of existence."* Ralph Waldo Emerson* "*Human Beings must always be on the watch for the coming of wonder."* * **EB White*