GUTS
“You know, you can go ahead and climb up on that table with him if you want.” Lauren nodded towards Andrew on his unforgiving hospital...
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marybacon7
Apr 253 min read
The Seemingly Impossible
On Sunday I did what a year ago, I’d never imagine myself capable. And two years ago-NO WAY- it’d never crossed my deepest subconscious...
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marybacon7
Mar 273 min read
Andrew's Birthday
3/26/2023 Today, Andy was born 55 years ago. Gosh. A year ago, at this time, I scattered his ashes in a river, just two months after his...
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marybacon7
Jan 95 min read
MISFIT
This year I couldn’t get a Christmas Card with news - or even a photo- together. First year without Andrew grinning widely, holding Oreo....
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marybacon7
Sep 10, 20235 min read
Death’s Clarity While Stumbling in the Dark
“...what constitutes a meaningful life has very likely been changed by your recent close acquaintance with mortality. Death has a brutal...
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marybacon7
Aug 19, 20234 min read
7 MONTHS - WORK!
Did you know grief is work? That's really interesting I think. That to grieve takes your participation, it doesn't just happen to you. I...
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marybacon7
Aug 9, 20234 min read
HERE IS YOUR LIFE!
“There are no shortcuts to healing grief, the only way out is through. It takes embracing all the thoughts as they come along." All the...
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marybacon7
Jun 19, 20233 min read
GRIEF BUTTONS
I looked up grief buttons the other day. I think I needed something akin to the old-timey black armband or widows’ weeds; the exhaustion...
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marybacon7
Jun 10, 20234 min read
Janu Sirsasana C -6/9/2023
That's cool. Changing alignment on a page From right to left instead of left to right as I type- God. It's exactly how I feel. I think,...
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marybacon7
Jun 10, 20235 min read
GOD'S PALM
5/13 Came up to the house we made ours 13 years ago. I woke up to mist across the river-it’s blanketing Peter and Beth’s field-stumbled...
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marybacon7
Jun 10, 20232 min read
TIME WILL
So many thoughts. Andrew’s absence is sinking in slowly, drip by drip, moment by moment, into my blood, into my waking and sleeping. I do...
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