Dear Anne,

Have been reading a large part of your blog and spent yesterday evening crying for Bee and your family's anguish and suffering to do with mental illness and other disasters.

At the same time, I am so glad she is alive and that your talent to live life fully has not been... extinguished.

Many special memories from my au pair time with you 1989-90 are coming back to me, super cheeky, boisterous five year old Bee very much present to my heart again.

Wishing you many decades of productive writing, and lots of hope, real healing and comfort and peace, and just any blessing you need right now.

With much love, also to all of your family,

Silvia