Grateful, Thankful, and Healing!
This Journey through the Wilderness of Grief and Beyond to New Life
Today, I am grateful for memories (I think). “Memories are bullets. Some whiz by and only spook you. Others tear you open and leave you in pieces.”― Richard Kadrey, Kill the Dead I opened up facebook and it was full of memories of my Love Larry. A ‘battle of the bellies’ photo with pregnant Sarah…
Today I am grateful for Happiness, Peace, Love, & Joy In the early days of grief and mourning, happiness, peace, love, and joy were scarce commodities. As time passed, the sheer weight of the pain became too much to bear and the decision was made that I could not suffer anymore. I begin to look…
Today I am joyfully grateful for: Wow! What a fun evening! The company I work for had a ZOOM cooking class on how to make a charcuterie board My good friend Nikki came over after work We drank 🍷 blackberry Mead added things not on the list (chocolate and garlic dills) and voila! Finished early…
“Dance. Smile. Giggle. Marvel. TRUST. HOPE. LOVE. WISH. BELIEVE. Most of all, enjoy every moment of the journey, and appreciate where you are at this moment instead of always focusing on how far you have to go.” ― Mandy Hale What great advice “…enjoy every moment of the journey, and appreciate where you are at this…
This is the third rewrite of “Why I Write”. The reason I started blogging can be found here: Why I Write Here is the first rewrite of Why I Write And here is Why I Write Rewrite II “This life is for loving, sharing, learning, smiling, caring, forgiving, laughing, hugging, helping, dancing, wondering, healing, and…
“Life happens for us, not to us.” – Tom Zuba There are no coincidences Everything happens for a reason I met Lawrence for a reason – to be my optimal self to learn to love with my whole being to learn to accept love freely given to be more patient to learn the true meaning…
Today I am grateful for: Letters received in the mail that bring happy tears. I haven’t cried happy tears in so long that it took a few breaths to recognize them as coming from a place of happiness, rather than sadness. I have been one breath away from tears for several weeks now. Especially with…
