Trips to the cemetery have been a daily occurrence lately. It's hard to comprehend the grief of parents who have buried a child and the grief of those who buried more than one. Noticing the dates on markers, there's one where the widow lived 45 years after her husband's death! As cemeteries go it's not old. Sinai Lutheran Church was founded on the site in 1889.
Joanne's been dead a little less than three years. It stretches my mind to think she knew nothing of a COVID pandemic. That's acceptable. What is less so, is missing the growth in her granddaughters, in whom she took such delight.
These are some of my musings in the land of grief as I negotiate the presence of absence.
"The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not 'get over' the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it. You will heal, and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered. You will be whole again, but you will never be the same. Nor should you be the same, nor would you want to."
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross and John Kessler
Takk for alt,
Al
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Thanks for Elizabeth Kubler-Ross and John Kessler quote. I needed that reminder,
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