Hello, my sweet little friend. I noticed I’m so quick to call the creatures around my home my friends or neighbors, but I have so much work to do when it comes to the humans. Truthfully, I have a lot of trust and abandonment issues when it comes to friendships; I create a level of distance with people around me like a moat. There is a whole period of my life that will be titled The Exodus of Everyone in my whenever-it-happens memoir. It’s been a long, hard, lonely road to look at myself and rebuild it all from the ground up. There is more than enough room to grow when you lose so much at once; more wounds to mend, more responsibility to take. We all need to change when we’re ready. Some barriers never come down again. Some just take time.