Communicating to ease worry 

'Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind.  If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.'
 -- Arthur Somers Roche"

Over the last few months, we have each had our own personal something troubling us about a matter very big and important to both of us.  Being away from each other for a few days in our own little worlds made it possible to "encourage worry."  In our conversation together, as our own "trickles" of worry became flowing streams that crossed each other's path and began to merge into a torrent, it might have been time to warn the people down in the valley of an impending flood, had we not found a way to communicate all that there was for both of us and drain the channel just in time to save lives.  

During my meetings yesterday, as so often happens, I found myself in conversations that were most important to me, my life, and my marriage.  They were about "honoring the conversation most wanting to happen, exactly when it most wants to happen."  This is a proven way to keep "worry" in relationship to a very thin and manageable trickle.  Here's to me and Anne for saving our valley below.