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A Glimpse of June

Posted on: November 18, 2025 | Posted by: Kathie Neff

In a Rainy November

There are days when you just don’t have a post in you. On those days (like today) I pick an old post and feature it as a placeholder until my spirit revives itself.

Here’s to beauty in the middle of rainy days from a post this past Summer. xo

 

Bee on sunflower

Where is beauty?

Where is joy?

 

I’m grateful to be alive this day

to breathe in air

to witness beauty

and to walk in bare feet upon the earth.

 

Grief’s feeling cycles

remind me

that I am alive.

 

The values which form

the backbone of my existence

remind me

to pay attention.

 

Where does joy

reside?

 

Where is beauty?

 

The beloved wids

who have come before us

remind me

to watch for beauty;

to watch for joy.

 

They witness

to the existence

of something

beautiful

sprouting amidst

deep loss.

 

In certain times

I can only say

“I believe you”

 

I peel my inner eye

squinting

hard.

 

Their promise

keeps me alert.

 

Let me find beauty this day.

Let me find joy.

Categories: Newly Widowed, Widowed, Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing

About Kathie Neff

Kathie Neff was widowed on April 15, 2021. She and her beloved husband, Dan, were high school sweethearts and enjoyed dancing and riding horses together. They lived in gratitude, hope and forgiveness for 50 years and nine months when Dan passed quietly late at night, surrounded by their seven children who, with Kathie, were caring for him in their family home.

Dan and Kathie have been a part of Camp Widow and Soaring Spirits International since its inception, as members of Michele Neff Hernandez’s cadre of helpers from the Neff family.

Kathie believes strongly in the strength and bond that is the gift of community and brings a heart of love for all who have been affected by death and dying.

Long live love. XO

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