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Comparing Grief Confessions

Posted on: May 15, 2024 | Posted by: Kathie Neff

piles of old clocks
Image courtesy of Jon Tyson via unsplash.com

[today’s view in contrast to 166+ days out . . .]

 

Hi Babe,

It’s been 166 days, 22 hours, 32 minutes and 16 seconds since you left.

 

[it is now 1,126 days since he left . . .]

 

The clock ticks on as I write, rendering the time estimate incorrect seconds after I type it.

Confession seems warranted since I sometimes cannot remember if I’ve showered— and apparently I made a tribute tile for you but I cannot remember doing so.

 

[but today the fog has lifted; the blur of days clearer]

 

I need to confess to you that the days keep moving forward. Time keeps marching on and still I don’t know where it goes since each day ends too soon and blends into the next.

Indy, the dog you’ve never met, gets bigger each day causing me to adjust her collar every week to allow space for her neck to grow even more. I confess to an ache that I feel when I remember that you are not here to enjoy her antics, her big personality, her adorableness.

 

[and to help solve the bits that are a part of her growth]

 

 

I must confess that being responsible for everything in this life we shared is overwhelming and I cannot always keep up with everything. I fail. I fail again.

I confess to moments when my heart aches and my eyes leak teardrops when life reminds me that you are gone.

 

 

[ever new, it sneaks up on me still — you’re gone]

 

 

I am hoping that the fog lifts, eventually, and the daily remembering of tasks improves.

[this is happening]

I live in hope that you are seeing us (even Indy) in ways I cannot know or understand.

[my heart affirms: this IS true]

It is my hope that I may be granted grace to manage life with courage and generosity.

[I have]

I hope my eyes and my heart remain in tune so that I never forget.

[yes]

 

[in addition to time as we know it, there is the Timeless which blankets all . . .we still meet there . . .❤❤]

 

I miss you.

I love you.

 

I’m forever yours,

Kathie

a couple posing for a photo, her arm around his neck.

Categories: Newly Widowed, Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Emotions

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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