{"id":8653,"date":"2024-02-04T13:26:27","date_gmt":"2024-02-04T18:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greetings4good.org\/?p=8653"},"modified":"2024-02-04T13:26:28","modified_gmt":"2024-02-04T18:26:28","slug":"reason-4-of-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greetings4good.org\/index.php\/2024\/02\/04\/reason-4-of-29\/","title":{"rendered":"Reason #4 of 29"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Homesickness is real!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Loneliness is real.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

When we moved to Pennsylvania, I was twenty-nine years old and had a two-year-old daughter and one-year-old son. Family is essential to me (chosen and given) and well, I was moving three hundred miles away with my husband who had a new opportunity. It was hard! Really hard. But we did it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Especially in the beginning, it felt like I moved to an emotional desert. The area where I lived seemed to have no opportunity for socializing with “transplants”. We sure tried, but we soon realized that it was a very different environment from life in Rochester. I wasn’t coming home to someone drinking tea in my living room. There weren’t any spur-of-the-moment dinners with the neighbors. In fact, NO ONE came for dinner unless they were staying for the weekend. (cooking for people seems to be a love language for me- so this was troublesome)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think you see that it was a very lonely time. I was home alone with two small children all day. They were joy and light and all of those things, but I was in an unfamiliar place that felt very isolated. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why am I sharing this? This was a pivotal time for me. Phone calls home were limited (you paid dearly for every single minute of a long-distance call in those days) So cards and letter writing seemed very inviting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I remember receiving a letter or a card, my mom was pretty good at sending them occasionally. Her timing always seemed flawless. I was having a rough day and a card from her would pop up. I started then calling it “Happy Mail”- it was! For me letters or cards from her or my sister, my grandmother- whomever became a lifeline. It was a connection that I could touch and reread, re-experience. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So today- I encourage you to send a card. Share some love with someone who lives far away, a college student, or an elderly friend- loneliness is salt to your soul, and you have the opportunity to bring a little bit of joy and light to someone who may need it more than you could imagine. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Homesickness is real! When we moved to Pennsylvania, I was twenty-nine years old and had a two-year-old daughter and one-year-old son. Family is essential to me (chosen and given) and well, I was moving three hundred miles away with my husband who had a new opportunity. It was hard! Really hard. But we did it.… Read More »Reason #4 of 29<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[10,153,104,341,342,99,161],"class_list":["post-8653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-greeting-cards","tag-cards","tag-greeting-cards","tag-greetings4good","tag-homesick","tag-lonely","tag-send-love","tag-share-the-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greetings4good.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greetings4good.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greetings4good.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greetings4good.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greetings4good.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/greetings4good.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8655,"href":"https:\/\/greetings4good.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8653\/revisions\/8655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greetings4good.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greetings4good.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greetings4good.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}