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PASSPORT RENEWAL
You can get a passport in one day in NYC; it is possible. On this day at 8 am, I stood in line with other anxious souls outside the US...
marybacon7
Jan 208 min read
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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...
marybacon7
Jun 5, 20244 min read
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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...
marybacon7
Apr 25, 20243 min read
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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...
marybacon7
Mar 27, 20243 min read
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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....
marybacon7
Jan 9, 20245 min read
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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...
marybacon7
Sep 10, 20235 min read
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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...
marybacon7
Aug 19, 20234 min read
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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...
marybacon7
Aug 9, 20234 min read
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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...
marybacon7
Jun 19, 20233 min read
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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,...
marybacon7
Jun 10, 20234 min read
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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...
marybacon7
Jun 10, 20235 min read
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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...
marybacon7
Jun 10, 20232 min read
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