Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 3:24
#TellYourStory | A Memorable encounter with someone I never met again
But it was the most incredible experience to be held by a woman who just felt the need as a maternal human to hold this little person. I wasn't so little, but you know what I mean. And it's a beautiful memory of exchange of energy and of goodness and kind this. And it really, really set me on a good path. Bye
L A
@homosanity · 3:33
It kind of reminds me of an experience I had when I moved up to the mountains, the Blue Ridge Mountains, for a bit with a friend I'd met just over the Internet. And I just took a risk to move out there. And I was trying to find myself kind of thing. And I was closeted and he was closeted, but we really didn't do anything as far as coming out, but we were trying to find ourselves
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 1:07
Of of course, we have to find a home in ourselves, but when you're told it in a way that doesn't put you on the defensive, that makes you realize that there's welcoming energy coming from the person that's saying to you, you're welcome here, and please know that the home is in your heart is a beautiful combination. Thank you so much. I'm so happy. My story, I I made you remember that. That's the beauty of these kinds of experiences
Erica Jean
@HeyItsErica · 3:09
You. Hi, Deborah. It's Erica here. I really found your story incredible, because, I mean, I can just feel the emotion of that human connection, and there's something about touch that is really healing. And when the pandemic struck in 2020, that was the one thing that was taken away, I think, was touch. I would go to work, and my boss, I had a very friendly, nice boss and coworkers in my department
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 1:01
And I've been thinking like lately we were starved. You're right. We could not do that for almost two years. I hope it never happens again because so many of us who live alone and we need that incredible reminder that we are in this body that's so needing of reminders of being, you know, with each other on this planet. Which is what hugging really is about. It's about that transference of I'm here, I'm here. I feel you
Eric Owens
@EricG · 5:00
The singer and actor and songwriter Glenn Campbell, famous for a song, a Rhinestone cowboy. He was a really good singer, had a real pleasant voice. I met him after, not long after leaving the Air Force, and I was in my hometown. I was downtown. Don't remember why I was there. I was walking down a sidewalk, and here comes Glenn Campbell. I thought, oh, man, you got to be kidding me. What are the odds?
Eric Owens
@EricG · 1:33
But anyway, that was the other image that I was going to mention in my reply to Deborah, but I ran out of time anyway, just wanted to share that with everybody. Hope everyone's having a great weekend