Echoes, no ramble. Your images were awesome (both the Cardinal and T's reflection). I felt that way once when I watched T walking to his car. He didn't see me but I saw him and I loved just watching him walk.

All, I thought of another favorite.

Sometimes when I am reaching way deep inside and I have something to tell T, it gets so quiet in the room. Everything feels still and frozen in the moment. I think this is because at these moments I am reaaching the true sister, not just the surface one. During these moments, just after I say whatever it is I am saying, T responds with an ever so soft and barely audible, "Yes." It is so affirming.

Others: "Sister, you have to take care of yourself." {When I first began therapy I didn't even know what this meant.]

"What do you need right now?" [I love this one too, it really helps me settle into me.]