Song - Time to Say Goodbye by Andrea Bocelli & Sarah Brightman
I have been waiting for the day to share with you about what has been going on in my life lately.....beside Covid.....beside California wildfires.....and smoke.....beside 100+ degree weather.
My last post was July 1st.
The very next day we got the unexpected news that my mom Betty was very ill and in just three short weeks she passed away.
A few days ago her home and the house that my family have lived in since 1956 sold. For the last few weeks my brother and I have gone through our family belongings. Nothing of real monetary value, mostly fond memories.......the best.
It brought us closer working through the grief, remembering fun times, giving items to family members and getting rid of the rest, laughing and crying. Her faithful little dog Buddy was re-homed to a loving family in Sacramento and they are all so happy to be together.
The birds that mom fed have missed her as well as they keep coming to the feeders and the windows wondering where she is.
I struggled with posting about this as it felt to dear to me and I was still too tender.
I trusted myself to wait until the right time
came. I even thought about just starting up again with a happy post
about a flower and act like nothing had happened. But in the last few
days it came to me.....YOU know exactly how this place feels. You have
been here at some point in your life so you know. And that is why I needed to share with you so that you know you are not alone.
"The reality is that you will grieve forever.
You will not 'get over' the loss of a loved one;
you will learn to live with it.
You will heal and you will rebuild yourself
around the loss you have suffered.
You will be whole again
but you will never be the same.
Nor should you be the same
nor should you want to."
--Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
