Death Perspective
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This week has been one filled to the brim with milestone dates & the emotions that ride sidecar. We have covered the spectrum over here in just a few days, and the spring weather seems to be sympathizing. It's been windy, cold, icy, and also balmy...with the first flowers just opening. If you live somewhere that serves up a proper spring, weather whiplash is just a part of the season.
Somehow, it seems I'm having my own inner-spring these days.
April 3rd & April 4th...these were my whiplash days. April 3rd marked 21 years of marriage to Geoff Hayball. I got 18 of those with him alive, and they were special...filled with all the expected moments.
Our first pet
Buying a house
Pregnancies & babies
Family vacations
Navigating the moving target we call parenting
There are thousands of pictures & not enough videos to chronicle the life Geoff & I built. One we believed would span many more decades than we actually got. You hear people say it all the time...
"You think you have time."
April 4th celebrates the day I met Jeff Heald for the first time. I shake my head at the timing of it all, knowing nothing is coincidental. How fortunate I am to have them both...the wonderful story that's complete & another that I'm just beginning to write.
I'm not saying it's even possible to live like you- or someone you love- is dying- but I do have what I call death perspective. I don't view the world in ways I used to, and not all of it is bad. I'd like to share some of my death perspective in this piece.
