It's Just Love
I navigated this past year learning to function after losing pieces of myself. It happened all at once and a little bit at a time. How do you grieve someone who was just as much a part of you and your life as he wasn't? Early on I read, there is no gone without goodbye. I felt those words deep within my soul. He isn't really gone, he is just living his life without me in it. I had already learned to live my life that way, so it was comfortable. Easy, almost. Or was it? Today, I read this as we finally laid my father's remain to rest. I want to thank all of you for loving my father, Sue, and me enough to be here. Even if there were moments that the emotionally stoic teddy bear that was my father didn't outwardly show it, each of you meant something to him. These past four months have felt surreal. When someone we love dies, it seems like the world should stop or at least pause to give us time to process and catch our breath. Instead, everything feels like it is moving...