remembering

Wish List

Posted: December 16, 2013 at 3:23 PM in Condolence & Loss Death Family & Relatives Friends & Neighbors
I wish you could have been there for the sun & the rain & the long, hard hills. For the sound of a thousand conversations scattered along the road. For the people laughing & crying & remembering at the end. But, mainly, I wish you could have been there.

Six Minutes

Posted: December 16, 2013 at 3:23 PM in Humor & Whimsy
Time to come out, I told him & he said he’d only been in for 6 minutes & I said that’s not true. You’ve been in the whole day & he shrugged & said all he could remember was the last 6 minutes.

Old Map

Posted: December 16, 2013 at 3:20 PM in Aging (& Retirement)
this is a really old map so everything on it has disappeared (unless you can think really old thoughts)

More Fair

Posted: December 16, 2013 at 3:20 PM in Condolence & Loss
They left me with your shadow, saying things like Life is not fair & I believed them for a long time. But today, I remembered the way you laughed & the heat of your hand in mine & I knew that life is more fair than we can ever imagine if we are there to …

Ghosts of the Past

Posted: December 16, 2013 at 3:19 PM in Aging (& Retirement)
I’d probably have more trouble with the ghosts of the past, she said, if my memory wasn’t shot to hell.

Forgetful

Posted: December 16, 2013 at 3:19 PM in Aging (& Retirement)
I don’t really have any secrets, she told me once. I just forget a lot of stuff.