Love, Loss and Life and Ina Fridays
I have been doing a lot of thinking of late and much of it brings peace and acceptance. I have discovered that these three words, love, loss and life are intertwined and the lines can be blurred. The sadness of the loss is powerful, the memories of my daughter's life are momentous, and the love we had and have is awe inspiring. She was my first daughter and was always filled with life. As a child, her spunkiness got her into big trouble. Despite this, how could one be angry when she was always fighting for a cause. So what , if she told a bully off in no uncertain terms. So what, if she argued with a teacher who was acting like he was ten years old. Once again, she was in the right. This led her to become an adult who fought for the rights of others, fought for the lives of others, fought for her beliefs. In her years of pain and sickness, she counseled others with her illness, she spoke in public to inform, she quietly listened to other...