Story

    "That's my story and I'm sticking with it,"  has become something of a catch phase. Doing a bit of sorting and filing, long overdue, I came across the following...have I used it before?...can't remember. It comes from Melissa Townsend, producer of  Native Indian News and my daughter-in-law.

     "All that we are is story. From the moment we are born to the time we continue our spirit journey, we are involved in the creation of the story of our time here. It is what we arrive with. It is all we leave behind. We are not the things we accumulate. We are not the things we deem important. We are story. All of us. What comes to matter then is the creation of the best possible story we can while we'er here; you, me, us, together. When we can do that and we take the time to share those stories with each other we get bigger inside, we see each other, we recognize our kinship-we change the world, one story at a time..." Richard Wagamese, Ojibwe from Wabeseemoong Independent Nation, Canada

     With the "after" of Joanne's death I've been posting my story on this site. Because we're in it together fellow travelers in the land of grief add their pieces to this story in comments, emails and conversations. All of us are grieving with various levels of intensity and in ebbs and flows. Twenty plus months after Joanne's death my grief remains but with a different level of intensity.

Takk for alt,

Al

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