by JAC | Dec 18, 2014 | Dear Audrey, Uncategorized
It has been almost a year and a half since I last wrote on this blog. In my mind, this blog was complete. And yet, there was a lack of finality to it. Grief has no finality, though it does have evolution and change, while this blog does have finality simply because...
by JAC | Jul 6, 2013 | Dear Audrey, Uncategorized
On the eve of your death I am watching town fireworks the day after the fourth of July. I am overwhelmed by the crowd of families around us on blankets with glo-sticks and cotton candy as we wait for darkness in the still, hot, summer air. There is a Korean...
by JAC | Jun 17, 2013 | Dear Audrey, Uncategorized
This is the third time. It is brutal.I haven’t felt it helpful or complex enough to say, “It’s not fair; it’s just not fair,” in the past three years. But on this day, I think those words a lot. Unless your young child has...
by JAC | Feb 20, 2013 | Dear Audrey, Uncategorized
Even though someone grieving sudden loss is in such great shock- it’s amazing how, at least for me, everything from even those first days- is so crystal clear. And in the last 2-1/2 years, I have often reflected on the comfort I have received from others,...
by JAC | Feb 20, 2013 | Dear Audrey, Uncategorized
Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this adversity that had come upon him, they came each one from his own place, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and comfort...
by JAC | Feb 20, 2013 | Dear Audrey, Uncategorized
One of the moments that stands out in my mind with great clarity took place about a week after your funeral. A good friend had come from California to stay with me for a few days, and we ended up cleaning a little bit. She, good friend that she is, cleaned...
