For a Year

[ryuko_midori]

One year ago, at this time, I was sleeping in my mom's bedroom. I slept all day, and when I woke up and went downstairs they'd already taken my father from his bedroom as well as the hospital bed he lay in for the last four or five months. I stood in the doorway with the open french doors we'd installed to keep the noise of the living room and

Comments

[marianndashwood]

Those are beautiful thoughts. I often notice, too, how much I've grown thanks to the awful things.

[kawaiiflamingo]

How nice that you have a recording!

In some ways, when a loved one passes away you almost become closer to them. It's so easy to take them for granted when they're a phone call or txt msg away.

[jeffreycwells]

Glad to know that you seem to have come to a form of peace about this.

[narniadear]

I don't think that anything I do could make him less proud of me than he already was.

What great knowledge to have. Hang on to it because I'm sure it's the truth. *hug* You are brave and amazing.

[forceonature]

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