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Status: Andy returns in my LOVE: alive, wild and beautiful. This colors everything I do.
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Joanie's tribute to her inspiration -- her brother and the chaplain who gently tended to her family as they walked through the grief -- reminded me of the Prophet, and the quote about how joy and...
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Most of the time, it's a choice. I LIKE being grateful, I WANT to be grateful, and so it's my habit to choose it... it makes me feel better. When I can't, well, that's the truth and I have to accept...
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Even though we always were at church, Easter's not a time of intense spirituality for me... I just didn't FEEL it. For us it was mostly another big family holiday like Thanksgiving. The ham, the...
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I know many of us have had a rough time recently. I don't think I ever cried as much as I did last Saturday. Justin dying was so sad on top of all the other sad.So......... what to be grateful for....
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A friend in brain cancer world died tonight. He was a University of Georgia student, so brave, so good.www.caringbridge.org/visit/justinelliottHis parents are Ellen and Ed. I will invite her to come...
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You have so kindly taken me and mine into your hearts, as I have you into mine. So I know it will be good news for all of us that Heidi's melanoma needs additional surgery but NO lymph exploration or...
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Honestly, that was hard yesterday. It was hard to be grateful. I'm glad there was a specific reason and purpose and call for gratitude otherwise I never would have scrounged around for any of it, at...
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I could sleep all morning. Lie in bed, read a little, sleep some more. But it's Monday. I need to get dressed and get to work. Poor Drew, gray and way past exhausted -- in the last week of his tax...
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So two days ago Byron and Caitlin announce their plans to marry. We were in the stars, so happy.Today I found out that Heidi's (she is my son Andy's widow) biopsied moles are Melanoma, Clark Level...
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I am filled with joy and gratitude. Really, the kind that only comes along a few times in a lifetime. HUGE!!!! Last night my son Byron and his beloved Caitlin told me that they are going to be...
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Dark and Light:Each time I survive a bout of the deepest most debilitating grief, I look back on it as having gone under, like underwater, to the bottom of the ocean... to the Mariana Trench where...
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MONDAY MORNING***********************************Yesterday was the turning of the spirit of love within me. Thank you all for hearing my cries, and especially to Joanie for reminding me of HALT. I...
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So much love, so much loss. I am staggering around trying to cope with the woe. I definitely got too tired last week and I knew I was falling apart and it was actually about Betsy (and Andy) when...
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Just lost a long post -- almost finished -- with the tingle of a finger. I'll write later... now late for work. Thank you all for understanding how and why I have been so upset about my Aunt Betsy.
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