Personal growth is always the most exciting and fulfilling feeling. Sometimes you can't predict the source from which it will come. It always comes from within when new data is learned or old outdated data is disposed of. The past can hold you down when it comes to personal growth for sure. Be open to learning new things and having new experiences. Despite whatever life hands you...you can blossom where you land. Be open...grow and expand. Life awaits you...
One year later...life continues but not without trials and struggles and heartbreak and joy and happiness and new things... Surviving the sudden death of your spouse is traumatic even to the most stable people...no matter what they think. I can say this as I somehow survived the first year post losing my spouse of almost 36 years. I would like to share what I learned and what I do everyday and hope that it helps someone someday to get along a little better.
Wednesday, October 12, 2016
Sunday, September 25, 2016
Families
They dynamics between family members particularly in times of loss are always an interesting study. As we are visiting with family the past seems to be the elephant in the room that no one really talks about.
What are we afraid to say? How much pain we feel...how many regrets we have? Are we angry to be the one still here?
I have always subscribed to more communication not less is the road out. It's hard to get people to talk but so healing when you can do so. Today would have been Verle's 59th birthday. It's sad that he never saw this day. But life continues and so does he somewhere...somehow. His spirit lives on eternally. His contributions are well remembered. And our lives continue to a new chapter.
Here's to families and healing times.