So - my first rejection letter!  Is this reason enough for some fizzy? Disappointed, yes.  Of course I'd hoped for a fairytale first article, first submission, immediate acceptance.  But it always was a fairytale and look, I'm still standing! (well, sitting in my comfy chair, but you knew that, right?!)

Onwards and upwards, now lining up other publications to bombard with submissions.

I must be growing up, the sky didn't fall, and without missing a beat, I started on Plan B.  I KNOW that Grieving the Forever Babies has an audience.  I just need to find it, and I will.

Meanwhile, time to polish up How to keep your online editor happy, and daringly, send that off to the international webzines I identified yesterday, one by one.  75 US cents a word, 1000 - 1500 words required, has my name on it!  Besides which, they were really interesting sites that I'm going to visit often.

Research wise - I've got a "green" topic in mind, to get cracking on.  My devious masterplan is to get 3 or 4 articles completed and sent out and about.  Someone has to snap one up, eventually.

G the FB's was something that I had to write, it was therapeutic, emotional, difficult yet easy and after writing it, something inside me was set free.  And not only me, the brave women who related their stories have also unlocked secret cellars within.  Suddenly, we are openly talking about our Forever Babies, including them into the conversation, as required.  Normal.  And no more tears as we do so.

So many years later, we've finally realised that our FB's are an essential part of whom we are, and the path we are travelling on.  It is up to us to use the gifts they endowed us with, to exude them as part of our aura, and to be there, with our acquired wisdom,  for those in need that we come across.  THIS is why we suffered, THIS is why we are here.

How incredible to actually see the reason for being, to know that nothing happens in disorder.  All is as it should be, and we have our place as it is intended. 

I've understood this, but now I know it.  Comfort and joy, and blessings to all.