Category: The Library
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Seeing in the Dark
It hit my Bear this afternoon. The reality. Mommy is going to the hospital again. He tried to talk, but his voice was shaking so much, “Buuutt, will I ggggeet to come ssssee you?” He was trying so hard to be strong and brave. Aren’t we all in this house? I fell to the floor…
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Whirlwinds
Summer has been amazing. And while I can be just a wee bit prone to exaggeration, amazing really is an understatement. I can’t even begin to describe what it has been like to no longer be a bystander in my home and to live life out and about with my family again. I told several…
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Celebrations
“Celebrate the little things in life, appreciate tomorrow…never condemn yourself to a life without cause to celebrate and be thankful for what you have. Never forget the people you love and love them when you have an occasion to do so. Celebrate their life and celebrate yours.” (~Anonymous) Look up “celebration” on google and you’ll…
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Day’s End
“I like the monotonous drone of the tires on the pavement, the containment in one small space of everything I need in my life…” (~from Elizabeth Berg’s “Caretaking”) As the darkness descended over us yesterday, the hush that covered our mini-van soon followed… the occasional sound of a thumb being sucked, the quiet, “Dad? How…
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Holding on to Something
It’s been one of those weeks, or rather months, or rather summers… where the grief hits like a tsunami and leaves me rolling and careening and gasping for breath as I try to comprehend what is happening around me in the lives of my loved ones and friends. Deaths, cancers, depression, loneliness, suffering, loss, surgeries,…
A Spring of Joy 