Tag: #LoveLivesOn
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“In order to be remembered… You have to leave.”
I shared this 11 years ago of Facebook. It’s a quote from Grey’s Anatomy “I wanted to break new ground. I wanted to leave a legacy. I wanted my life, my brain, my existence to mean something. The thing I never really thought about, though, the thing I never really wrapped my brain about until…
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I Currently Live for Morning
I wrote this last year, and so much of it is still true. What has shifted is the hunt for newness. The memories still come, but they do not always surprise me the way they used to. Still, I come back to morning, because morning is where I keep finding Jess, even when the finding…
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Always Yes
Sometimes I wonder if love always knew what it was asking of me Long before I held her Long before I knew her love of snails or the sound of her laugh Maybe the universe already understood the length of her life Seventeen years Six months Thirteen days A whole lifetime, even if it was…
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The Things With Nowhere to Go
Note: This piece grew out of the conversation that followed when I first shared my thoughts about the things we keep after loss. So many people wrote with their own stories, and each one carried the same quiet ache — the longing for continuity, the wish that our love could keep unfolding through the hands…
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Teach Your Community How to Remember With You
People often want to reach out when someone dies. They really do. But most of the time, they don’t know how. They don’t know what’s safe to say or if it will make you cry or if you’d rather not talk about it at all. So they wait. Or they stay quiet. And that silence…
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Moving Into the Second Year Without Jess
I am moving into the second year without Jess, and grief feels different now. I suppose the shock has worn off. There is no longer that moment of sudden disbelief that she is gone. Instead, there’s a steady, familiar ache. I am no longer surprised by her absence. I am simply, regularly saddened by it.…
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The Grief Heart: A Simple Way to Signal “I’m Remembering”
When someone you love dies, it can be hard to know how — or when — to talk about them. Many friends want to be supportive but aren’t sure what to say. Sometimes they stay silent, worried they’ll make things worse. But for those of us grieving, silence can feel like forgetting. That’s why the…
Grief Heart Project 