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Journal 30
My darling, The weekend just gone was “quiet”. But then every weekend and most weekdays are “quiet”. And it’s in that quietness that your absence becomes more pronounced. You know, my love, that in the last month or two of your life here I would take the…read moreJournal 29
My darling, Every day in so many ways I am thinking about you. No big surprize in that statement. My guess would be that such a reality will be true for a long time yet!! Each day there are so many “memory triggers” that ensure that I have no way to avoid or escape their influence -…read moreJournal 28
Hello my love, As the journey picks up pace, my engagement with grief seems to intensify. I’ve read umpteen books about the progress and process of grief over the years. But sometimes my head knowledge about the clinical aspects of grief and grieving don’t seem to “cut it”…read moreJournal 27
Hello again, my love, Grief is a strange creature. Just when you think you have it worked out, it morphs into something else. Over the years in my calling as a Pastor I have tried to explain to others the dynamics of grief by using the illustration of surfing. Of course, explaining it and…read moreJournal 26
Happy 51 st Wedding Anniversary, My Love!! Well, for us it was a wedding anniversary with a difference. Instead of us sitting in a restaurant for the 51 st time, I was sitting alongside your memorial out near Bathurst. You remember what the winter wind is like up on the Central…read moreJournal 25
Hi Sweetheart, If heaven is the eternal present and there is no sense of time, I guess that anniversaries are conspicuous by their absence? That may be true where you are but next Saturday here is our 51 st wedding anniversary. This will be the first anniversary in all those years that we…read moreJournal 24
My love, This afternoon I did some shopping and as I was about to leave I saw some lovely roses for sale at the front of the supermarket. My instinctive reaction was to go over and buy some for you. It suddenly occurred to me that I couldn’t do that…ever again. As you know I have not…read moreJournal 23
Hello Darling, The burying of your ashes at “Tumblegum” last weekend was a special occasion but it has had the effect of making my sense of loss more intense during this past week. Perhaps it is giving me/us a sense of closure that has not been there before (at least not with this…read moreJournal 22
My darling, It goes without saying that I think about you every day….. but I’ll say it any way, You are so much in my mind as little things daily remind me of events and experiences that we have shared together over the years. Because these are memories, I can be selective in what I…read moreJournal 20 + Letter
Sweetheart, I’m sorry that I couldn’t complete my account of all that happened when we buried your ashes last weekend. Just to give you an overall sense of activity, let me add to my last contribution. Following our little ceremony we all headed down to the local eating…read more
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