I don’t know how to mourn you because the you that left us is certainly not the you that I grew up with. The you that I recall was the one who held space for me in her home, always had kind words to direct my way, and an ear for my voice when I […]
This year thus far has been a bit of a roller coaster. Losing a job has been the big thing. And right at the time when so many others have lost theirs as well and the ecosystem is flooded with uncertainty and instability.’ It’s easy to get dizzy with disappointment. Applications are sent in but […]
It’s been a dozen years now. The date approaches, nerves and anxiety piling on I always expect November to be crappy because it is the month that I said goodbye to you as you were lowered into the ground. I try hard to smile and ‘think positive’ like everyone on Instagram says to do… But […]
Is it weird that it doesn’t hurt as much as it did ten years ago when your sister called in the velvet of night with heartbreak in her voice and pain in her cries to tell me you were no more? I googled Grief and How Long It Lasts to get an idea of when […]
Well, it’s almost ten years now… four more days unbelievable how time has floated by. My tears dried up over the years, but a crack still in my heart from a loss so unexpected. Time has covered up the crack not very well but it tries what remains, I can’t describe. A decade ago, death […]
It’s a story I could not tell before, my tongue tied by a delicate bow of velvet grief So smooth against my heart for the last decade that I hardly noticed the crack in it as much, the bow covering my entire heart, crack and all. That I almost forgot. Reminded only and often by […]
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