Thank you

This weekend is a celebration of love and life and will all be aligned with keeping our memories of Otto. I don’t know how I feel.  That’s probably a bad thing if you ask my therapist. The pain doesn’t lessen, i just have more callouses over it.  The surrealism around …

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Rollercoaster

As I try to spend my days devoted to loving honestly and deeply, I can see myself going up and down in an emotional rollercoaster.  I think about the things I am doing wrong, and maybe those sometimes I am doing right…I am questioning my parenting skills and worrying.  It’s …

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The Dogwood Tree

The legend of the dogwood tree, author unknown, is as follows: In Jesus’ time, the dogwood grew To a stately size and a lovely hue. ‘Twas strong and firm, its branches interwoven. For the cross of Christ its timbers were chosen. Seeing the distress at this use of their wood …

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Days Apart

I haven’t written my thoughts and feelings in days.  It certainly isn’t that I haven’t had any…its so much more that Easter was hard.  Of course it was and I knew it would be, everyone knew it would be.  I was a total stuffer. I stuffed all of those really …

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