The sight of the yellow, red and orange leaves, is usually a sign that fall is here. Normally we wear long sleeve clothes and cool crisp air feels refreshing. A cold snap has set in bringing snow to the north. Even Georgia feels like winter has set in. Winter jackets and gloves are brought out. We [...]
Archive for October, 2011
Halloween Spirit
Posted in Grief, memory, tagged Christmas, Easter, Georgia, Halloween, Holiday, Kansas, Thanksgiving, Trick-or-treating on October 29, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Healing Hands
Posted in Grief, memory, tagged Cosmetic and Plastic, Health, Massage, Medicine, Physician assistant, Plastic surgery, Surgery, Waiting room on October 26, 2011 | 2 Comments »
At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict, or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent. – Barbara Bush Today was the plastic surgery. I sat in the [...]
Lost and Found
Posted in Grief, memory, tagged American Association for Cancer Research, Basal cell carcinoma, Cancer, God, Health, Skin neoplasm, Surgery, Thomas Moore, United States on October 25, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Family life is full of major and minor crises — the ups and downs of health, success and failure in career, marriage, and divorce — and all kinds of characters. It is tied to places and events and histories. With all of these felt details, life etches itself into memory and personality. It’s difficult to imagine anything more [...]
She Felt My Pain
Posted in Alcoholism, Grief, memory, tagged Death, family, grief, Home, ICU, Illness, Intensive care unit, Maternal insult, mother, Parent on October 18, 2011 | 4 Comments »
“He that conceals his grief finds no remedy for it” ~Turkish saying Today I was asked the question, “Why are you the way you are. How could you forgive everything and care for your mom.” Last year my mother was put into ICU and we were faced with the fact that she might die. At that time I made [...]
Savor this Moment
Posted in Grief, memory, tagged Happiness, Memory, mom sunshine, Scrabble on October 16, 2011 | 1 Comment »
“Perhaps it will seem to you that the sunshine is brighter and that everything has a new charm. At least, I believe this is always the result of a deep love, and it is a beautiful thing. And I believe people who think love prevents one from thinking clearly are wrong; for then one thinks [...]
Trying to Catch My Breath
Posted in Grief, memory, tagged Aunt, family, Holiday, Home, mother, Parenting, Thanksgiving, United States on October 14, 2011 | 4 Comments »
I received a message today that there is a hole that has been dug on my mother’s grave. I am guessing that they are getting ready to place her tombstone on the plot. Having the stone placed seems so final. It’s the finishing touch to her life. Our last gift to her. It’s fitting that [...]
Release
Posted in Alcoholism, Grief, memory, tagged family, God, Home, mother, Parent on October 11, 2011 | 6 Comments »
You can close your eyes to the things you do not want to see, but you cannot close your heart to the things you do not want to feel. – Author Unknown All day I had this pit in my stomach. The kind that arrives after you realize you forgot to do something major. The [...]
Making Memories
Posted in memory, tagged Apple, Apple cider, Apple Picking, Apple pie, Fruit, Fruit picking, Honeycrisp, John Muir on October 9, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. – John Muir I went apple picking for the first time today. I [...]
Fragile yet Resilient
Posted in Grief, tagged Conditions and Diseases, Health, Rabindranath Tagore on October 9, 2011 | 4 Comments »
When I stand before thee at the day’s end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing.” – Rabindranath Tagore It took me several months, but I finally feel like I understand that there is such a thing as a new normal. Things will never be the [...]
What lies beneath
Posted in Alcoholism, Grief, tagged anger, Health, Matter on October 4, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy. - Aristotle Growing up I always knew [...]
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