When I still saw her in person, t sat in her rocking chair and I sat on the end of the sofa right across from her with a little round wicker table in between. I don't recall the distance - not much more than the size of the little round table though. It was a comfortable distance, just right I thought, not too close, not too far. Sometimes I took my shoes off, mostly not. I never sat on the floor, but wanted to on more than one occasion. Now that we do only phone sessions, we sit about 1,300 miles apart. When we are talking on the phone, it doesn't feel like she is that far away at all.

I still miss those in-person sessions, though, because I miss her actual presence, seeing her and being seen. Something like that.