This will be my first Thanksgiving after 45 years without
you. There were lots of “Norman Rockwell-ish”
Thanksgivings, but there were also a good amount of harrowing, terrifying and
looking back, funny Thanksgivings too! There were years when it was just our little
family of 4, years of a full house bursting at the seams with extended family and friends, a year in Philadelphia
with 160 teenagers in the high school band performing in the Thanksgiving Day parade, and when both
of our sons were in the service, (Navy & Air Force) stationed far away from home that we shared our Thanksgiving dinner for other young
servicemen that were also stationed far away from their own homes and family. Each of these precious memories all had one thing in common…you sitting
at the table.
As I enter this unimaginable holiday season without you, I am trying so
hard to allow the grateful, happy, funny and loving times to exist between the overwhelming grief of losing you. This Thanksgiving I will be grateful for the wonderful
memories and supportive family that I do have, but there will also be unbearable grief that you not here.
"Ghost" Indigo Girls
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