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I continue to come across beautiful words that speak to me during this grief journey. This morning it is a poem by Mary Oliver but it was the picture that captivated me as I looked at its splender. I've used a pdf so the picture can be on the page as you read the poem. May today bring you all sunshine and may you find just a touch of happiness in your lives. My prayer today is that those who are struggling with the reality that their loved one is gone find just a moment of peace. We are all on this journey that none of us asked to be on and we all wish it were just a dream. Anne

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Dear Anne, The poem is beautiful, the picture is beautiful. I reread the poem many times and also kept looking at the magical picture. You can imagine so, so many things, beautiful things. I want to thank you so much for posting this, it is very inspiring.

Dan

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I am so glad you found the poem and picture a comfort, Dan. Several of us really like Mary Oliver, the poet. I love anything nature and find great comfort in things that grow. It just amazes me to see a seed become a beautiful flower or tree or to contemplate the awesomeness of the birth of a newborn. What miracles we witness everyday in our world.

You will be in my thoughts when you see your doctor on the 20th. Please be sure that he/she knows that you are grieving. I do not know anything about medicines yet I do believe in asking for help if we think we need it. What is important in my book is that someone does not treat my grieving as a sickness. I make no judgments about whether or not someone needs to see a specialist about other things - my only wish is that you not allow anyone to make your grieving a sickness. I don't even know if that makes any sense but ever since I have been dx with congestive heart failure I make sure I know just what that means so I can act accordingly. I would not want someone to give be medicine for a sore toe if I needed something to slow down my rapid heart rate! Did I tell you that I love chocolate - ask anyone on this forum and they will tell you that I am addicted! ^_^ To chocolate that is.... Anne

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So true, Anne. Grieving is nothing like a sickness...in fact, death is very much a part of the cycle of life. Quite ordinary in it's process...anything BUT ordinary to those of us left here to deal with it.

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Dear Anne,

I just read the Mary Oliver poem and admired the mountains.

Truly beautiful. Some days, it is not easy to open our arms, but I think we must open our eyes when we can, and let the rest follow when we are ready.

Being open again to beauty and life have become challenges for me, and really, projects. It seems to be one of those hour by hour projects. :)

The sunlight is sifting through the high birch canopy, and there are robins calling in the forest. I think it will be a good day today. I plan for it to be so. No packing or shipping today or tomorrow.

Thank you for your loving generosity, for taking the time to find and share such loving words and beauty here.

Much Love and *<twinkles>*

fae

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