The Gift of Grief?
Facebook memories reminded me tonight that 7 years ago today we were getting ready to bury our father, on Feb 12th. Oh I hadn't experienced a heartache like that before. I remember saying it felt like my heart was being ripped up open from my fragile body. 💔 This year we entered the year getting ready for Naus 100 nights. Nau who's been with me all 3 decades of my life, 5 decades of my mother's life. But more specifically, the Nau we ate and lived with past 5 years. A constant presence just not present anymore. 2 weeks after that one of my life friends passed on, the night of her birthday. I was messaging with her all that week because we share the same birthday week. I wished it was a dream. A horrible nightmare to wake up from. But she really was gone. Just msging the day before, and gone the next. The gift of grief? A question because in one second grief feels devastating. And in the next second you laugh at a silly or random memory of them. A heartache hard ...