Nine years ago today, I lost my mother. I can't always say it out loud, I can't always talk about it, but I honestly have no clue how I've survived this long without her. Not because I need someone else in order to survive, that isn't it, but because life is full of people that … Continue reading Life Is Full Of Everything
Loss
The Month Of Triggers
Fourteen years ago today, a female relative of mine (an Aunt by marriage) was murdered by her live-in boyfriend. I just read her autopsy and toxicology report for the first time; her death having been ruled an "accident". I read it in utter disbelief. The damage incurred was no accident. I look at it as … Continue reading The Month Of Triggers
When Someone You Love Dies
“When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time—the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her … Continue reading When Someone You Love Dies
Gone Baby Gone
“I have lived with you and loved you, and now you are gone. Gone where I cannot follow, until I have finished all of my days.” ―Victoria Hanley In memory of my sweet angel: 1995-2013
Every One Of Us…
“Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive.” ―Haruki Murakami
Grief Turns Out To Be…
"Grief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it. We anticipate (we know) that someone close to us could die, but we do not look beyond the few days or weeks that immediately follow such an imagined death. We misconstrue the nature of even those few days or weeks. … Continue reading Grief Turns Out To Be…
From Childhood’s Hour
“From childhood's hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.” ―Edgar Allan Poe
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https://www.gofundme.com/christinagrimmie This is terribly tragic. I'm aware there are other things going on in this world at the moment, but this one hits a little too close to home in my heart.
Written by LISA MARINO-Molchanova 