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Apr.30.2013
Many times since my husband’s TBI, people have said that I’m strong, and that God knows our strength. He knows the strong people and chooses them to be the ones to handle tragedy. But if that were true, then we wouldn’t have people committing suicide. Those people also had something happen that...
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Apr.07.2013
I spent the day cleaning the yard. Cutting down the grasses that my wife always let me burn in the rickety fire pit we've kept year after year. Stupid thing has three legs but you'd never know it. It leans so far to one side it looks like an upside down R2D2. The old fire pit. On its last legs, as...
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Jan.12.2013
(My apologies to my readers for the length of this blog. It is an excerpt from my memoir, I Never Heard A Robin Sing, and documents what I wrote in my journal regarding my plan to escape my abuser. It will be followed next week by excerpts showing what happened after I left the shelter)
Day...
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Dec.20.2012
The wind’s fury can lash bruises across my skin and uproot my soul.
Let lightening pierce a chasm through my heart and thunder deafen my promises.
The rains may pelt my resolve and flood my eyes.
Watch my bearings rattle as the earth crumbles under foot.
An...
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Dec.04.2012
I was thinking about how much I love life the other day and posted about it without too much deep thought, a habit of mine. But after typing and posting, I thought more as I did other things over the next few days.
My 'love of life' that day reminded me of my life with my wife when we were...
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Oct.01.2012
I was sitting next to my mother at the nursing home today, holding her hand as she went in and out of sleep, and thinking back to the day almost seven years ago when my brother died. Michael was then about the age I am now, and nearly all of his life, he had been bright and strong and healthy and...
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Aug.25.2012
Hello there my spiritual friend,
I trust that things are going well for you, if not; perhaps this will enhance your return.
Today, I desire that we consider, perhaps, where we are, why and how to dismiss these entanglements, which so readily bind us, thereby making us impotent to...
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Apr.22.2012
A friend posted about a gift she was given because of something she wrote. The recent tragedy of my grandson's unexpected (and so far unexplained) death earlier this week brought people together to offer their condolences and we shared our grief in a very public way. The obituary about Connor's...
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Jan.14.2012
There are no words to say to someone when they lose all that they have. To say you are sorry for their loss, does not cover the true feeling within you. Actions speak far louder than words and it was actions that took over in a time of dire need for a classmate who lost his...
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Jan.06.2012
Fog, throws a veil over the trees and muffles the sounds of the morning,but does not quiet the chatter in my head.Last night my husband described me as a strong woman. I think that is an apt description.
I am thankful that I do not fall apart when a crisis hits, especially when it comes to my...
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