This is Day Four of 30 Days of Writing that I participated in during January of this year. The prompt was entitled: Truths of 2023. Basically it was about what we learned during the past year:
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| Mom and I Summer 2019 |
Grief comes in waves. Out, like the ocean and you go about life like normal. In, like the family photo at your Cousin’s wedding and you realize it is the first photo without mom in it. The first trip back home without her there. A blank spot, a lack of warmth, a missing face, an empty chair; silence.And then out again, enjoying time spent with family, us still the same. Being there for my own kids and working at a job where other Mom’s kids need me…I still need my mom too! And in again, working on my photo journal and finding the last picture I took of her, hugging my kids, thinking it’s just “see you later” again, because she HATED goodbye. Not knowing it was really goodbye and really the last hugs. Just like the ocean, grief has its calming and relaxing moments mixed with the raging waters and the high winds of a hurricane. Balance…will I always be searching for it? Luckily, storms are temporary and so are the waves of grief.
