This is Fruitycake. Around here, it doesn’t take much for us to lose our confidence.
It doesn’t take much to make us nervous. And the appointment and trip to immigration this last week was all of our insecurities put on pieces of paper to be analyzed and judged.
When it was all said (what we could understand) and done, we found out we have until October 28 for another appointment and to show more progress on our plans. It’s lovely to have more time to show our work, but being in limbo again is hard too.
We were thrown off balance a little bit because it wasn’t what we expected. But a few days off from the physical work did the persons good. Once we got more shoes for them, they felt like they could keep walking the walk.
Girl Person has a hard time with confidence. Especially here. And yesterday, when some lady persons dressed very nice acted like they were simply disgusted at me and Girl Person for how we looked in our own neighborhood, she felt very bad.
She had been painting and working outside. She had walked over 8 miles. She had washed clothes and cleaned and she was tired. But they didn’t know that or care. They just wanted to make it known they were better. And Girl Person believed them. She was thrown off balance again.
She decided this morning to face her fears and just walk into town again. She told herself and me we belonged too. That one day we would match on the outside what we felt inside. But until then, we would not be deterred from enjoying the sea and the neighborhood as much as anyone else.
She went to say a prayer and focus on her positive thoughts by the waterfall, and well, she slipped. She fell in. She hurt her knee and her spirits again. Thrown off balance.
But you know? She changed and we still walked there. We still enjoyed the view.
And we just walked the walk. There have been many times we have wanted to give up and you believed in us. This is that time too.
We can all be thrown off balance. We can all doubt our worth. But look around. The birds and the trees and the sky and the grass don’t care about how you look. They care about who you are.
If you know who you are, value your own opinion and don’t be thrown off balance by someone else.
–Fruitycake
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I love your dreams and your goal of helping animals who need love and homes. You have chosen a very difficult path during a very difficult time for the entire world and (IMO) a disastrous period in the USA. So many people are dealing with the cruelty of this administration, so many programs have been slashed. Among other disasters, as I’m sure you know, the animal shelters here are bursting with animals who’ve been surrendered, many whose people have been rounded up and deported or who have lost their jobs. I do love your passion and would do more to try to help if the need were not so massive on so many fronts. I wish I could be in Italy to carry some cement or do some weeding or at least walk with you into that very very rich town you have chosen where the yachts are only smaller than some of their owners egos (IMO). Dont worry. You are doing good work. Try not to fall too much on those steep paths. I fell this summer of a couple of ligurian terraces and busted my collarbone. OK now, but I’m lucky. Be careful — it’s easy to make a misstep when you’re so tired, am i right?
People who think their money makes them better than others are totally wrong-headed. It’s character that puts you at the top, not money. And people with good character don’t put others down just because they look like they’ve been doing some work. Of course, those folks probably haven’t done much work, so they don’t realize how important it is to know how to work, how to do so many different things, and how to sacrifice one’s own creature comforts for the sake of other creatures. Rachael and Nate are very special people who work hard and have a vision that is totally unselfish. Those hoity-toity women will never understand what sad lives being selfish and judgmental gives them.
Hi Fruity!
I sent a little extra money to help with groceries in the morning. Make sure Girl Person gets you an extra slice of prosciutto and extra scritches between your ears from me!
Love, Jenni ❤️