You are right Soli-- it's so important to remember these things.

Dear T,

Thank you for the way which you recognize all parts of me. The way you are teaching me that there is so much more to me than the narrow window through which I see myself. Thank you for always being interested in everything-- in me as a whole person. You have acknowledged rage, creativity, attachment, beauty, the child in me, the therapist in me, playfulness, humor, anxiety, sadness, pain, connection, disconnection, and more-- and through all of this you have never stepped away, only moved closer.

Thank you for the way in which you look when you listen to me. The way you put your hand on your chin and play fiddle with your goatee very intensely while staring at me. I have never had somebody look so engaged with me.

Thank you for understanding me better than anyone else in the world ever has.

Thank you for being the only person to not be afraid to say the things that no one else ever has.

And finally, thank you for last Tuesday-- thank you for being the only person in the entire wold, ever, who may have actually gotten through to me about my SI.