HomeGROWWn is your place. A place to
come to any time of the day, any day of the
week. There are no keys to this room,
there are no "Hosts", just an open room
for all to gather for fellowship and
continued support for those who perhaps
have taken that second step past the need
for the Grief Recovery room and it's
Branches. All our rooms will be there for
the days you might have a need for them,
but when the day arrives, the day you
"graduate", the day you learn that
laughter and good times are not
something to feel guilty about, take the
walk over to HomeGROWWn, where the
"Midnight Angels" who can't sleep or
works days gather till the wee hours of
the morning to say hello to the "Sunrise
Angels" who might just be getting off work
or waking up.
Midnight Angels is what we called
ourselves way back when we first met
online over four years ago. We spent
many late nights talking on line because
we couldn't sleep and many a morning
watching the sunrise "together". We know
how very important those nights were to
us. When friends would pop in and out all
night to join us or just peek in to say hello.
When the development of GROWW began
we talked about those days and reflected
on the importance of the friendship that
grew with us. It began with the support
group where we met and as everyone
seemed to drift off to sleep, we would stay
behind to talk about things that
widows could finally talk about. We
weren't newly widowed as some were but
we never had the support that we now
found. So there were issues that we
learned were so alike with us. We cried
together as we began to unfold the pain
we each were facing and have faced, but
we laughed a lot too.
Old friends like Headlimey and Morgf who
still walk our halls today would drop in or
like us, just stayed as each drifted off to
sleep and we would have our "after
hours" get togethers and just enjoy each
other's company.
Some of us were among the
many who attended the first in-person
gathering of people we met in that room
way back when. Strangers meeting on the
internet who have remained friends
through the years. And here we are,
opening our doors to HomeGROWWn, a
kind of a room where we met in days past
and have remained thankful for the
friendships found, the shared secrets that
were spoken, the open laughter and even
the tears.
I shared a dream and today we give it to
each of you. "Your place", to meet your
friends for a late night snack or an early
morning cup of coffee, to watch the
sunsets and the sunrises together and to
just pop in and out during the day on your
lunch hours, between the rinse cycle and
the spin cycle, a chat before dinner or
during dinner if you hate eating alone, but
a place that is yours to share because we
care.
The only "rules of the house" are just to
remember GROWW is rated a "SAFE SITE"
and Family Oriented. We hope everyone
will realize that the eyes of little ones
might be peeking in from time to time.
This is a place that is yours to enjoy as
long as you like. We simply ask that you
use washable crayons for the walls, don't
spill your drinks on the carpet or sweep
the dirt out the door cuz you never know
who will be walking in.
Love to all,
Judy
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The
GROWW rooms consist of thousands of people, each with different
lifestyles and opinions. We do not judge anyone's right to grieve
or their right to live their lives. There are stages of grief that
everyone who comes here will go through. The roller coaster of emotions
that each of us feel. The good days and the bad. This is why we
have created a second room to our main support rooms. GROWW for
Widowed has GFW2 or the "Moving On" room. Grief Recovery
has HomeGROWWn. The "second" rooms are for fellowship,
for camaraderie but they are just as much for support as the main
rooms. They are also GROWW rooms and are to be used with the same
amount of integrity.
Because these rooms were provided to members for fellowship, does
not mean they can be rooms where "all the rules" don't
apply. There's a difference between adult conversation and out and
out vulgarity. The rooms are provided for the support of those who
need support. The main rooms, while very often there is laughter
and fun, is for all members who come for support. If they are in
a bad place and you find it difficult to listen because you don't
want to "go back there", then the second rooms are there
for you to visit and fellowship, laugh and joke.
