It is amazing how quickly time goes by. As of this month, I've been blessed to be able to post my writing here. I cannot begin to thank Erin and the lovely ladies who keep this a welcoming home and a place to share our work. I am also at a loss to express the gratitude for all of you who have encouraged me and loved me!
I just posted a novella that I hope takes the best of a previous serial of mine (Irish Intersection) and expands and hopefully makes things nice and neat. For the Love of Kelly O'Meara has indeed taken a page out of the O'Meara family's book to be a labor of love. It's taken me six plus months to complete and may yet be a wee bit rough around the edges. If you read and notice something amiss, please feel free to send me a pm?
Between my occasionally bothersome health issues and living with my brother's family, it was difficult but ultimately rewarding to finish this tale. But as many of you know, it's barely been six months since Tracey was taken from us so suddenly. I cry every night and most days as well, but things are slowly inching along toward being easier, though so many of you know all too well how grief never really goes away.
I dedicated my story to someone who has been, like a few others,a daughter to me. It is in coming to know my Maeve via my correspondence and seeing her pictures and stories that Tracey came to a greater understanding of the girl she never knew she married but loved just the same all along and perhaps even more so when she 'met' me.
Anyway, a shout out to everyone, but especially to my daughters Kelly and Liz and Diana and Maeve, my niece and my sisters Ronnie and Joann and Dottie and Kristine and Portia and Renee and Jenn and my dear sweet Randalynn. And bless you all!
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continuing to hold you in my heart
and in my prayers. huggles!
keep on pushing
Just keep on pushing. Remember? And remember that there are lots of people on your side.
Yes, it's mostly up to you, but many people here are rooting for you. And you're right, of course - grief never goes away, but it doesn't have to stop you from living. And you have your brother and his family, and your son and your new daughter-in-law. And, of course, all of us here on the sidelines cheering you on.
You'll make it work. Of that, I am 100% sure.
All my love, always.
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There's not a whole lot I can say
...except that I do love you momma. And I cherish the knowledge that despite whatever else is happening in my life, who I lose or gain, I will always have you deep in my heart.
I still can't believe that I was somehow a help with any of that, as I wish I could have that luck in my regular life. But I love you and always will. <3
Samirah M. Johnstone
Grief
Grief is merely love that no longer has the same place to go that it once had. Also grief is as individual as the person going through it. I know this because a little over three years ago my wife of twenty six years crossed over. We all do it one day at a time and gradually continue on.