My fatal flaw. The need to satisfy everyone, or feeling that I’ve satisfied no one at all. Now everyone knows that it’s impossible to make everyone happy. And in fact, you could argue that it’s not our job to make anyone happy anyways. Often I think so much about what someone else may want that […]
Category: Life
The last day of the month, and 6 months of the year has passed. Every day brings new surprises and challenges. New questions and choices. We await the unexpected, certain that news could change everything. We make mistakes and ask forgiveness, even of ourselves and our maker. We look back and we look ahead. I’m […]
It’s an interesting thing, time. Looking ahead, looking back, trying to be focused on the present. We move forward and then get pulled back. Like waves in the ocean. We think of all that can be, that will be, that should be. Then we think of all that was. How difficult it is just to […]
I’ve been thinking about the balance of time versus money. I started consulting to create flexibility in my life, but I’ve also been grateful to do well financially also. That being said, I’ve given up even more lucrative opportunities for that flexibility. To me, and for me, it was worth it. I was talking with […]
6 months have passed this past Saturday since I lost my very best girl, Bella. My heart hasn’t healed and still loss has come again. Yesterday I learned that Bobo the cat is no longer with us. He wasn’t mine exactly, but he was mine more so than anyone else and I loved him. We […]
Time is a strange thing. The clock never stops for you. Minutes turn to hours, hours to days, days to weeks, weeks to months, and months to years. It’s inevitable but it doesn’t make it easier. It’s been 26 weeks today since that fateful Thursday. Exactly one-half of a year since Bella left this world. […]
The sixth (and most newly recognized) stage of grief is finding meaning from loss. I have cycled through all of the stages of grief, many times over, since Bella left this world. I still really miss her and I always will. …Do you know what Bella taught me in all of this? The meaning I […]
“Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is remaking of life.” And so began this project for my sweet girl. I promised Bella I would bring her home, and I wanted something to commemorate her that would last my lifetime and beyond. I had considered marble as an option, given how […]
Today is Sammy and Bella’s 11th birthday. They were born November 14, 2010 to an outside mama cat, rescued by Sheny, a friend and fellow shelter volunteer for Happy Tails Pet Rescue. 2 boys and 2 girls. Today we celebrate the birthday of the 2 girls in heaven, my sweet Bella and her sister, Luna […]
To say the last 6 weeks have been hard would be an understatement. For those that read my tribute to Bella, followed by her journey from this world, you can imagine why. Bella wasn’t just a cat. She was a furry friend. She was my best friend. She was family. She was my loyal companion […]