Sometimes, some people get an awful hand in life. Sometimes, bad things happen to good people. I do not know why. I will never pretend to know. I have met a lot of people who believe they have the answers. They do not. Once, I had some one point out during my grief after IContinue reading “Miracles and Losses”
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Finding Meaning
_ _ _ _ _ I remember standing in what used to be my childhood bedroom. It was covered in ash and ice. The once warm red walls were discolored with holes all around. I should not have been there. The firemen said it was not safe. There was caution tape wrapped around the entranceContinue reading “Finding Meaning”
Clothes For a Funeral
I pulled up to my grandmother’s little stone house so that I could pick out clothes for my mother to be buried in. My mother had been staying with my grandmother at the time. My sisters told me that I could pick the clothes, and that they trusted my judgement. Everything looked the same inContinue reading “Clothes For a Funeral”
Hope
My family sat in a conference room near the waiting room of the hospital intensive care unit, so the doctor could inform us that my mother would die. The lights were bright white, and so were the walls. The chairs had a faded blue fabric, each one the same. There were probably pictures on theContinue reading “Hope”
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