Healing After Loss

Reflections: Japanese Garden, Hermann Park

"Grief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it."

~Joan Didion: THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING

Healing After Loss

“You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly—that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.” Anne Lamott

(Please note: Kelly Kilmer just recently lost her dad. She had the Lamott post on her blog. Oh, boy, can I relate. It's been a year and a half since Mr. Dragon went on to the stars and I am learning to dance with a limp.)

Good Morning!

Healing After Loss

It's been eight months since Dick died.

When he died I thought time should stop.

There should be some recognition of the passing of this soul by the universe.

I used to say that I was married to a Boddhisattva.

He was kind, compassionate and generous without giving it a thought.

The universe should have at least hiccuped. 

"Make me to say, when all of my griefs are gone,

'Happy the heart that sighed for such a one.'"

~Samuel Daniel

Healing After Loss

Source: google.com via Snap on Pinterest

"There is a land of the living and a land of the dead 

and the bridge is love

the only survival the only meaning."

~Thornton Wilder

I found the Thornton Wilder quote first and was having a hard time picking a

photograph to pair it with.

Then I found the Pooh quote on Pinterest and knew this was what I was going to use.

I've always thought Pooh and the Pooh Crew where very good philosophers. 

Love does not cease with the event of death.

I still Love Mr. Dragon

and

He still Loves me. 

Wishing YOU well.

Healing After Loss

Postcard: Monet's Gardens at Giverny

I feel your presence

Together we made it bloom

Musashi's Garden

Musashi's Garden

A big thank you to our hostesses:

Beth for Postcard Friendship Friday

and

Rebecca for Haiku My Heart

Wishing YOU well and a joy filled weekend.

Healing After Loss

Ganesh - remover of obstacles

"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly."

  ~The Buddha

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"We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned,

so as to have the life that is waiting for us."

~E. M. Forster

Healing After Loss

"Don't cry because it's over.

Smile because it happened."

~Dr. Seuss