Were truer words ever spoken where love is concerned.
If there's one thing I've learned through my own experiences with grief and loss and working with others in the course of theirs, it's how our losses become part of us. Where once we defined ourselves in partnership with a something or someone, now we're in partnership with their absence until we see them again.
Thanks Bill. The Princess Bride is one of my fav movies. Last time I was watching it, and heard that line (spoken by the character Wesley) I grabbed a pencil & jotted it down. Perfect to post on the anniversary of John's death, I thought.
'Tis true that my loss (and the circumstances surrounding it) have defined me in a big way. I don't talk about it, but I don't like to deny it either. Thus the yearly post with message to John as though he could read it...
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Were truer words ever spoken where love is concerned.
If there's one thing I've learned through my own experiences with grief and loss and working with others in the course of theirs, it's how our losses become part of us. Where once we defined ourselves in partnership with a something or someone, now we're in partnership with their absence until we see them again.
It's really lovely, the way you put this one.
Thanks Bill. The Princess Bride is one of my fav movies. Last time I was watching it, and heard that line (spoken by the character Wesley) I grabbed a pencil & jotted it down. Perfect to post on the anniversary of John's death, I thought.
'Tis true that my loss (and the circumstances surrounding it) have defined me in a big way. I don't talk about it, but I don't like to deny it either. Thus the yearly post with message to John as though he could read it...
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