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Status: Andy returns in my LOVE: alive, wild and beautiful. This colors everything I do.
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Note to self: green smiley for Monday, DONE!It's so damn dark and rainy here. Waaah. This afternoon I was a vestige of my old self. I couldn't get motivated to tidy up or cook... my usual weekend...
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I love how these poems and writings are flowing to me, through me. This one is powerful for me because I knew for 17 months that Andy was going to die. The Poignancy of Livingby Richard GilbertI...
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I am so so so blessed. I have been working for this small design firm since 1987, through thick and thin. We've seen a lot of life together, we eight. After the last few weeks of emotional...
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You know how when you are at the very limit of your ability to endure, the one thing you need to do to survive... is breathe. Breathe in, breathe out.I have had such an emo stretch (Andy would call...
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You know the NPR radio show "This I Believe"? It's a wonderful opportunity for people to say something that they believe is the truth. My therapist, psychologist Mary Plouffe, is one of those who...
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Haha kind of funny to mark this entry as Educational. : ) But it is. It was that kind of day, for me. Today is one of those days where you read "The Thing Is..." a poem like I posted earlier (sent to...
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The Thing Isto love life, to love it evenwhen you have no stomach for itand everything you've held dearcrumbles like burnt paper in your hands,your throat filled with the silt of it.When grief sits...
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_jG2SXlkpU&feature=relatedI would love it if you would listen to that song... it's by Mindy Smith, and was written for her step mother who was dying of breast cancer....
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It's intense. I go through all these days, AS IF, and then I see Byron. I went to his house in Portland for dinner. Yeah, he wrote an email to all of us, saying Hey Fammies, let's have some supper!...
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Thank you for all your positivity and tender loving care around my SIL/sister Lyn. I just wanted to let you all know that she is doing pretty well after the big mean brain surgery. the swelling and...
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Lyn is actually my ex-sister-in-law, but after my marriage to Larry ended about 12 years ago, she and I decided we needed to formalize a permanent sisterhood which would withstand the vagaries of...
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I never used to be afraid. Now I wonder if the world is safe. So many of you lost someone to an accident... that one terrible night. The very thought of such a blow... oh my god. Now I drive around...
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At the MOMAYou know how vertigo is sometimes described as the fear that you secretly WANT to jump and just might?I went to the Museum of Modern Art today -- I'm in NYC for the weekend -- and there...
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So............... I can't put it on my car until Oct. 1st. BUT I LOVE IT!!! Andy would have loved it too. And the "respect. love. adopt": perfect.
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Two things to share and record. First the little then the big. But they're both big!1. I now have my NOON license plates. Love you Andy. Every time I get in my car, and everywhere I go, you are...
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