Blogging to live
I realize that I have been absent from the blogosphere as a writer for a very long time. Often I have written to process things, or during times of depression, loneliness, or sadness. As I've finished training, am employed full-time, and have a wife and a soon-to-arrive daughter (along with numbers other "irons in the fire"), I've neither need to nor had time to write.
That changed today.
My mother passed away this morning.
So for those of you who used to read my blog, please bear with me over the next few entries. They will be of a personal nature, and will be an effort to process both my mother's life and her death, a way to pay tribute to her and my father, and an attempt to find words for my own feelings. My dear friends, and I am blessed with many, have been graciously reaching out to me today, and knowing that they care has meant the world to me. However, as I'm an emotional basket case, I've been fairly reclusive, mostly because I hate sobbing on the phone (much less in person)!
For the avowed atheists, I ask that you respect that at least some of my entries will have religious references or themes, and I'm neither trying to convince anyone reading of a particular belief system nor attempting to enter into an argument about the validity of such a system.
I'm not writing for feedback, but if something I've said moves you to respond, please do so.
Wayne
That changed today.
My mother passed away this morning.
So for those of you who used to read my blog, please bear with me over the next few entries. They will be of a personal nature, and will be an effort to process both my mother's life and her death, a way to pay tribute to her and my father, and an attempt to find words for my own feelings. My dear friends, and I am blessed with many, have been graciously reaching out to me today, and knowing that they care has meant the world to me. However, as I'm an emotional basket case, I've been fairly reclusive, mostly because I hate sobbing on the phone (much less in person)!
For the avowed atheists, I ask that you respect that at least some of my entries will have religious references or themes, and I'm neither trying to convince anyone reading of a particular belief system nor attempting to enter into an argument about the validity of such a system.
I'm not writing for feedback, but if something I've said moves you to respond, please do so.
Wayne