Across the Miles

I have been truly touched and amazed at how many people have taken the time to reach out to me and offer me kind words of love and support.

Of course my family and close personal friends have been here with me. Holding me up. Cooking for me. Crying with me. Laughing with me. Sitting in silence with me. Sending me messages everyday or calling to check in. In the future if they ever have to go through a {{{shudder}} tragedy I only hope I can be as good and kind and wise as they have been.

Just as amazing is YOU. You people from all over the world who have reached out to me and from the heart offered me words of encouragement and love and support. Some of you have spoken from personal experience and pain to let me know that one day, one day, it will be easier. Some of you have cried across the internet with me. Some of you have reached out via personal emails. Some of you have called me on the phone.

Thank You doesn't seem like enough to say to all of you. But Thank You is all I have right now. You have held me up. You have encouraged me. You are wonderful, compassionate, giving people. You help me through each day.

Many of you have commented on TBHITW's picture on the beach. I will always cherish and ponder that picture.

And this one, where Holly Bear is turning back and he is walking on. No footprints in the sand. Just a glance back at me.

A boy I last saw in high school wrote a poem about this picture. Across the years - this now grown man (who I remember as being kind, quiet and intelligent in HS) sent me these words, the picture somehow speaking to him.

Like I said, amazing.

light                                                       by R.J. Heller

“Everything continues, light is the essence of today, the reminders of the past, and the beacon for tomorrow….”

Ever changing, yet constant, memories

In us, revealed in a smile,

In us, it is our eyes

Our Soul

It is ever reaching, and does

Not end…it continues

In time, and in all the empty spaces

Our Times

It touches, us with memory

Of joyous rapture, and

Tones of sadness

Our Reflections

Year upon year, it travels

Singing of a life lived

A life shared,

Our Lives

A smile is love,

Light shines, becomes many

Things, a touch, taste, a smell

Our Moments

It touches us, gentle reminders,

To live, and to remember

A smile is love, in light constant

Our Loves

Each memory, as it rises

Is light, linked to many more

Colors reveal the light, the smiles

Forever….