“Dear Anderson, I have been watching you on CNN for quite a long time. Every night you move me with your show in so many ways but this podcast did even more. It touched my heart and soul! Brought tears as I listened to you and thought how I had done pretty much the same things with my feelings with each loss. My brother to a tragic accident when I was only 34 and he was 39. My Dad in 1999, well that broke my heart in a big way! Being the only girl of 8 kids I was his “little Miss”! I still see all the cards he wrote to my grandparents signed “7 hits and a Miss”! My family was a big baseball family so I always interpreted that as I was the foul ball till he saw me crying one day and had to explain what he meant each time he signed a card that way. As the song goes “I loved her first”, that was the bond I still feel at the age of 70 now! I was THAT SPECIAL and I never realized it till he explained it all to me. Then I lost my mom 6 years ago and our family just fell apart. She was the glue holding us together and for the past 6 years I have been, like you, searching for the answers. “Where do I put these feelings? What do I want for my children and grandchildren to see in me and remember about me? They are the world to me and I don’t want them to see the pain of the loss I feel or ever experience a family that falls apart when their parents are gone!
I need you to know that just in this first podcast you have tapped into everything hidden inside of me! You moved me and kind of turned on a light that I have been just a finger tip away from switching on! Feelings are real and no matter what you feel you have to feel them to be the best version of yourself and you and the memories of your mom just brought that to the surface for me! I so am looking forward to your second podcast and everyone there after!
I thank you so much for sharing this and you’re right we can all learn from each other about so many ways to deal and move forward!
Now I’m paraphrasing because I don’t know if I will get this right but I loved “it’s not the what ifs, it’s the what is”! Sorry if I got that messed up a bit but it was perfect! Thank you again! Much Love till the next time!❤️🥰❤️”
"a Miss" via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
09/14/22