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"Life is hard. I must have said that twenty times today. A friend&amp;#x27;s father passed away and another is in the hospital. This week would have been the 30th birthday of my friend who was killed on 9/11. And this afternoon, I attended a luncheon for Emily Listfield, one of my trusted mentors, in honor of her upcoming novel, Waiting to Surface, about her husband/father of her daughter, who literally vanished from the face of the earth. Then I read your comments which, by the way, each deserve their own individual blog. So many of us are at a crossroads, unsure of which way to turn. Confusion can be so paralyzing. I hate it. Sometimes it&amp;#x27;s absolutely impossible to &amp;quot;listen to your heart.&amp;quot; Sometimes your heart won&amp;#x27;t give you a damn clue. Because I adore Jenn Thompson -- she was my first reader-turned-friend, as a result of the comments section and Myspace -- it saddened me to read about her marital problems. I thought it might help take her mind off things by linking to her business website, www.signaturehomestyles.biz/jthompson. Hook my girl up! I&amp;#x27;m sorry this email couldn&amp;#x27;t be more upbeat. It&amp;#x27;s been a long day. Nah, a long life. There&amp;#x27;s a funny quote my uncle always says, &amp;quot;Some days you eat the bear; Some days the bear eats you.&amp;quot; Not so poetic, but it works. If that doesn&amp;#x27;t do the trick, I often think of this Carl Jung quote I learned in Psych 101, &amp;quot;Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word &amp;#x27;happy&amp;#x27; would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.&amp;quot; What do you tell yourself on days when....life is hard?"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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