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Status: Andy returns in my LOVE: alive, wild and beautiful. This colors everything I do.
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Dear friends, this piece was read at church yesterday... The service was about listening to your heart and finding a balance between inner and outer lives especially during December. I got shivers as...
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PRAISE SONG Praise the light of mid-November,the thin sunlight that goes deep in the bones.Praise the crows chattering in the oak trees;though they are clothed in night,they do not despair.Praise...
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TONS of work to do. I want this week to be over, there's so much work to get done despite my having said I would take Tuesdays and THursdays off. What a joke. Crying all the way to the bank.And...
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I am being a sad wise-ass here but this is the question: would you rather have to carry around a sack of rocks all day, so all your muscles and bones hurt, OR walk along in relative comfort but never...
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I have been feeling so much pain and stress and emotion as I round the opposite side of the year from May 19th when Andy died. It's my PTSD cycle. We're coming up on the half-year marker. It feels...
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another poem flows through our space today! this from a friend... Celtic Night Prayer Do not hurry as you walk with grief, it does not help the journey. Walk slowly, pausing often: do not...
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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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