It took me awhile to get back to the photos from Easter weekend. As I’ve mentioned before, the holiday itself is a pretty emotional one for us still. There isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t think of my niece, but everything is brought into sharper focus when we visit family for the…
Tag: grief
widening the backdrop
I was listening to an interview with Marie Mutsuki Mockett, author of the book “Where the Dead Pause and the Japanese Say Goodbye” on All Things Considered yesterday. It was broadcast in this half hour piece of the show that plays on our local station during the late afternoon, and then that same half hour…
twelve wishes
Grief is rearing its ugly head these days. Some days it feels like we are keeping it at bay, but then it sneaks up on us. This past week has been particularly difficult, and there are many things we could point to that might explain this. Our family ran in the Finley 5K race last…