In the fall of the year leading to winter, it is natural to contemplate death and loss. In ancient traditions the sun was waning and they did not yet have the promise of spring showing in the sky. I started getting OneDrive reminders about pictures “on this day” awhile ago. It was unexpected but I …
Category: Grieving
Aug 15
Time Marches On – My Grief Story 7 Years Later
As I contemplated writing this and really why I needed to “put it down on paper,” I realized that I am probably in the mindset of a person coming down from a high on drugs, thinking I can do fine without another “dose” but not at the stage where I am crashing yet. That is …
Jul 19
Messages from Erin
I had already planned to tell you about the Red Teletubby. I assume he has a name, but I don’t know what that is so he’s the Red Teletubby to me. For two weeks now, while I’ve been working in my new “home office” in our one extra bedroom, Buffy has been clawing at the …
Apr 09
The Booger
Yeah, I know I deviated from my easy to formulate titles, but I had to today. What you see to your left is a booger. But it’s not just any booger. It’s Erin’s booger. I found it yesterday while patching the myriad of nail holes in her walls, after we took down all of her …
Feb 12
Musings for 2/12/2018
Greetings all. I have been on business travel, and sick, for the past month (not in that order) so have not written in awhile. I have thought about writing though, as I’ve had some interesting experiences. Since I don’t know when the last time I shared was, forgive me if you already knew that I …
Dec 22
Musings for 12/22/2017
I have had a lot of grief this week. It’s fresh, just like I picked it up from the store yesterday. Of course I do a lot of inner pondering and such, and one of the topics that I mulled over was living in the now. That’s a big thing you know. I actually enjoyed …
Dec 04
Musings for 12/04/2017
This time I’m coming to you from Washington, D.C. I arrived at my hotel today and my room wasn’t ready, so I finally ended up eating lunch in the hotel bar and grill. There was a TV on behind me with our President speaking about downsizing some national parks. You know when they do that, …
Oct 31
Musings for 10/31/2017
I was going to post Erin’s last Halloween picture, but I couldn’t find it easily and gave up. This picture is from a 2014 A New Leash on Life FaceBook post, and includes a bunch of decorations that we donated. We only kept the things that were near and dear to us and to her. …
Sep 15
Musings for 9/15/2017
If you don’t know who the fellow in the various pictures is – the guy having his liver eaten by an eagle – it’s Prometheus. He was chained and had to endure the eagle eating his liver daily (he was immortal, and it would regenerate each night). This was a punishment for giving humans the …
Sep 12
Musings for 9/12/2017
I’m in that time and space where I cannot seem to communicate with any ease. That includes emails, texts, and messages. So if you got something from me that you felt was off, or short, or anything else unusual, I just can’t get it out in a fashion that’s user friendly. Sorry. Deep depression doesn’t …