My best friend passed away last month. I find myself wanting to pick up the phone to tell him about little things in my day, just like we'd done for so many years.
Dear Snap, we all loose during our life some of them, we love. Not only the death takes persons away. Its hard to learn to live without them. Anne Lamott quoted so exactly how it feels. Thank you for sharing. Hugs and greetings, Johanna
Hi Snap...beautiful thought today...thanks for sharing this. Anne Lamott is one of my favorite authors....in fact my very favorite sentence in once of her books is this "You're freaking me out octapuss (sp) head" One of her boy's friends said this as a comment to her dreadlocks. LOL LOL
This describes exactly how I feel since I lost my mom 12 years ago. Life will never be the same but it must go on and her memory is alive with me everyday. Thanks for sharing.
Robin Robin Flies South
June 13, 2012 at 3:41 PM
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I've lost so many family members and like my Mom 31 years ago and I still can feel it on days. Annie Lamott is so wonderful to read, she just reaches in and grabs you in the gut and turns your head around. One day, one month, one year, one decade slowly learning to dance WITH the limp. xox
I think this process of acceptation, to learn how to live with these tears inside the heart is so difficult. Time... Sending love to your heart dear Snap, Léia
My Dad passed away a few weeks ago. For some reason I feel like I'm 6 years old and lost in the park again and trying desperately to find my parents.... This quote kind of seeps into your heart... Thanks for sharing it.
June 18, 2012 at 9:46 AM
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“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.)
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Close this window Jump to comment formMy best friend passed away last month. I find myself wanting to pick up the phone to tell him about little things in my day, just like we'd done for so many years.
June 13, 2012 at 9:35 AM
What a beautiful thought.
June 13, 2012 at 9:54 AM
Here's to dancing whilst limping - or should that be, to limping whilst dancing? LOL
June 13, 2012 at 11:42 AM
Dear Snap,
we all loose during our life some of them, we love. Not only the death takes persons away. Its hard to learn to live without them. Anne Lamott quoted so exactly how it feels. Thank you for sharing.
Hugs and greetings, Johanna
June 13, 2012 at 12:04 PM
Hi Snap...beautiful thought today...thanks for sharing this. Anne Lamott is one of my favorite authors....in fact my very favorite sentence in once of her books is this "You're freaking me out octapuss (sp) head" One of her boy's friends said this as a comment to her dreadlocks. LOL LOL
June 13, 2012 at 12:29 PM
Lovely quote. I shall need to save that one.
June 13, 2012 at 12:34 PM
That is a keeper quote and OH so true.
I have lost mom, dad, best friend and my first husband......and the sadness has become a part of me, it is always with me.
June 13, 2012 at 12:50 PM
Yes, Mr. Dragon is right beside you all the time and always will be.
June 13, 2012 at 1:03 PM
This describes exactly how I feel since I lost my mom 12 years ago. Life will never be the same but it must go on and her memory is alive with me everyday. Thanks for sharing.
Robin
Robin Flies South
June 13, 2012 at 3:41 PM
I've lost so many family members and like my Mom 31 years ago and I still can feel it on days. Annie Lamott is so wonderful to read, she just reaches in and grabs you in the gut and turns your head around. One day, one month, one year, one decade slowly learning to dance WITH the limp. xox
June 13, 2012 at 5:02 PM
So true. I've had very hard losses but I can now smile when I think of them. Deb
June 13, 2012 at 9:51 PM
As long as our loved ones live on in our hearts, they'll always be with us. I think it's OK to talk to them too, I do.
Judith
June 13, 2012 at 10:42 PM
The limp - what a perfect way to describe it.
Hugs to you from me...
June 13, 2012 at 10:51 PM
I think this process of acceptation, to learn how to live with these tears inside the heart is so difficult.
Time...
Sending love to your heart dear Snap,
Léia
June 14, 2012 at 8:37 AM
Dance with a limp has a beauty of its own to it. It shows the love and loss that was. Dance, Beautiful, Dance.
Love and light to you !
June 14, 2012 at 11:17 AM
This is lovely. I am a hospice volunteer.
June 15, 2012 at 8:44 PM
My Dad passed away a few weeks ago. For some reason I feel like I'm 6 years old and lost in the park again
and trying desperately to find my parents....
This quote kind of seeps into your heart...
Thanks for sharing it.
June 18, 2012 at 9:46 AM