Happy Thanksgiving
My blog's focus started out as an exercise to help me learn to live with the deep grief I was experiencing after my daughter's unexpected death. Looking back on the blog I truly hope some of the posts have touched other people's hearts who are living with the heartbreak of losing someone they love. Many years later the focus shifted to include things that I find interesting or compelled to share but I have never lost the main focus of the blog--GRIEF. (updated Jan 2024)
Tuesday, November 21, 2017
Saturday, November 4, 2017
It will be 9 years without my daughter
Someone
posted this quote from Christopher Walken for a friend on FaceBook. I copied it because I think it’s
perfect for any of us who’ve suffered a loss...
“Someday
you will be faced with the reality of loss. And as life goes on, days rolling
into nights, it will become clear that you never really stop missing someone
special who’s gone, you just learn to live around the gaping hole of their
absence. When you lose someone you can’t imagine living without, your heart
breaks wide open, and the bad news is you
never completely get over the loss. You will never forget them. However, in a
backwards way, this is also the good news. They will live on in the warmth of
your broken heart that doesn’t fully heal back up, and you will continue to
grow and experience life, even with your wound. It’s like badly breaking an
ankle that never heals perfectly, and that still hurts when you dance, but you
dance anyway with a slight limp, and this limp just adds to the depth of your
performance and the authenticity of your character.
The people you lose remain
a part of you. Remember them and always cherish the good moments spent with
them.”
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