So true Valerie - don't know how we'll feel, or what can help me feel either:
- better (many times it seems if I had a good/positive dream (that I remember) the night before, I wake up more optimistic); or,
- worse (a bad dream can start me off at a disadvantage), as can a strained or difficult encounter or experience with a thoughtless person (at a store, while driving, or remembering a recent such encounter, or thinking about past and present family issues to my detriment - i.e., ruminating!).

Best wishes as you make a plan to attend this September meeting. (Frankly, I'm a bit nervous that it might attract morose folks, more to the point - people who like horror films, evil thoughts, whatever...sounds a bit silly when put into writing, but maybe you get the idea...?)

But I have been troubled in the past with how little people discuss or consider the inevitable, and how much more power over the present that gives the subject of death than (maybe?) it warrants; that is what draws me to a group that seems to seek to dispel that power.

I'll continue to check into it online...welcome any further insights you get from this venture at any time!

Best! BrandyS.