Browsing Tag

loss

  • Musings

    Mama

    Mama This is my favorite photo of us. I wish I had one that showed your face at this moment but I know that mine was only mirroring yours. You were smiling, full of…

    May 7, 2016
  • 365 project 2016

    Day 88 Fragile

    See this little dandelion, half torn, half scattered? It can feel like this, walking through grief. It can be such a delicate, tenuous process.In a moment I can be undone. My insides show through…

    March 31, 2016
  • 365 project 2016

    Day 61 I miss you

    Dear Mama, How I miss you. Did you see the lanterns we sent off for you that November night not long after you stepped into glory? Maybe not. Our lanterns must have been dimmed…

    March 2, 2016
  • 365 project 2016

    Day 38 Without You

      Remember those red chenille pillows you bought me from Pottery Barn, Mama? The puppy shredded them. And although I didn’t want to go without you, I went back to Pottery Barn today to…

    February 8, 2016
  • Musings

    The Fog

    Grief can feel like this. It has become difficult to see clearly — difficult to even think clear thoughts. I forget things. I put things that are supposed to go in the closet into…

    November 3, 2015
  • 365 Project 2014

    Remembering Katie Klinect

    I have this handful of pictures of Katie that I took on a snowy day in February, barely two months before the accident that would take her life. These photos that I took of…

    April 19, 2014
  • 365 Project 2014

    Dad’s Tulips

    The red tulips that I planted for my dad came up last week. A dear friend gave me the bulbs shortly after my dad passed away last summer. It was the perfect gift. Red…

    April 15, 2014
  • Musings

    Scarlet is the Color of Redemption

    How can I begin to share this story of such incredible grace and joy? I am overwhelmed again and again as I recall the events that have occurred this week, this year, concerning this…

    August 19, 2012