 Friends         | I am very happily married  Gracious Swan: “Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods.” ― Christopher Hitchens, The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever Gracious Swan: Ill survive break free from the limitations of the prison of your mind from having a narrow view of life, the world, and its existence As every breathe we take is a new beginning Summer comes after the death of spring Flowers are in bloom death when autumn takes its place To be reborn after the death of winter Wind rustling the leaves talking sit and listen to what they have to say break free Gracious Swan: Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could. – Louise Erdrich View all 4 posts  Nicotina: Poignant and beautiful. This captures the how bittersweet love and loss love is. Love will break your heart and it's worth it.   ozziwi: My heart goes out to you and your family ..may he rest in peace ..and God bless very sad time for you all Gracious Swan: Ill survive This is the 3rd day without my beloved Silence greets me as I wake in the mornings No loving embrace during the night The bed is empty Realizes he is gone No tears will bring him back Each day brings new challenges With out him How will I survive No light No more dreams of the future of us together Realizing I must start a new dream without him ‘ Where will it lead me It is now the 5th day with out him My thoughts are still jumbled Realizes that decisions need to be made What do I do Hide or accept the challenges that have been placed before me I am on my own while I think Needing the space from others around They mean well It is now 2 weeks since his passing The wake has been planned for tonight Its to celebrate his life Not to mourn his death He loved life, family, friends and to travel We each had a story to share It is now Monday morning I knew my husband would want me to keep on travelling Just follow the road he would say Matters not where you wind up Enjoy I brought a pup He looked at me with his brown eyes Knew he was mine He will be my travelling companion as well as my older dog Tonight I can not sleep my mind is in turmoil Wanting to tell him Little stories of what has happened today Can he hear me Does time heal all wounds View all 9 posts  davishness: He can't hear it, yet, he still sleeps. But I think he'll apologize for falling asleep early and causing you the sorrow when he awakens and finds out   JennysPenny: I barely know what to say my dear sweet friend. I’m sorry I didnt know how quickly he got so sick that he could not recover. I surely would have come around more often just to hold your hand. Love you dear Gracious Swan: 10/12/20 @ 10.30am, was told my beloved had 3 months to live My best friend A life of solitude on a faraway mountaintop watching the early morning mist enveloping the trees my thoughts blowing in the wind back to when joined in love the years flash by remembering the good the bad the laughter the tears now it is nearly time to say goodbye I will hold your hand give you that last kiss that you might find peace then the lonely days turn to lonely nights all I have are my memories of our time together you will always be with me Welcome to our house The place where we made it a home Bringing up our children and enjoying our grands The home is where my heart is You will be in my heart forever he asked if he could die at home As it was his wish, I accepted Now its countless sleepless night averaging 1 and a half hours sleep to 5 hours of broken sleep waking up to wash him, feed him, wash the bed sheets at 2.30 am, giving medicines, injections as required, by the time you crawl back to try sleeping on the lounge you are woken yet again visitors dropping in 27.03.21 now over his struggle is almost over his time is near I’m saying goodbye I LOVE YOU 28.03.21 @ 2.45 am he passed away At last, he is not in pain  iamgypsychild19: My dear friend.......I can say nothing now to ease the pain. Know that you and the journey you have been on will be in my thoughts. I am so sorry this has happened, but he isn't in pain now. I am here if you need to talk when the time is right for you |
Or if I believe other than you, at least pause before you correct my view.
Or if my emotion is less than yours, or more, given the same circumstances, try not to ask me to feel more strongly or weakly.
Or yet if I act, or fail to act, in the manner of your design for action, let me be.
I do not, for the moment at least, ask you to understand me. That will come only when you are willing to give up changing me into a copy of you. I may be your spouse, your parent, your offspring, your friend or your colleague.
If you allow me any of my own wants, or beliefs, or actions, then you open yourself so that someday these wants of mine might not seem so wrong, and might finally appear to you as right - for me.
To put up with me is the first step in understanding me. Not that you are no longer irritated or disappointed with me for my seeming waywardness.
And in understanding me you might come to prize my differences from you, and far from seeking to change me, preserve and even nurture those differences.
Dr Keirsey