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i carry your heart with me

November 3, 2021 by Kathie Neff Leave a Comment

a heart with light shining within

i carry it in my heart . . .   after e.e. cummings poem   i carry your heart with me (i carry it in my heart) i am never without it (anywhere i go you go,  my dear) e.e. cummings     i carry your heart with me the heart that broke—grew—broke literally—and mended […]

Filed Under: Newly Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Emotions Tagged With: newly widwoed, hope for widowed, biglove, lovestory, decades together, grieving process, widowed emotions

Traveling in the Land of Grief

September 15, 2021 by Kathie Neff Leave a Comment

a foggy land where you feel lost

One hundred and fifty two days ago my beloved husband transitioned into death. In that time I have learned that the reality of death and grief is something that cannot be understood unless you are in it. I thought I knew something of it, having experienced other loved ones passing. I was wrong. The photo […]

Filed Under: Newly Widowed, Widowed, Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions Tagged With: #StagesOfGrief, hope for widowed, biglove, decades together, grieving process

Love Always Wins

September 8, 2021 by Kathie Neff Leave a Comment

a dog toy named pig

The Power of Memory Do you ever wonder how certain memories come back to teach us about ourselves? The lesson for me in this week’s post is that dying is damn hard. Sometimes, in the midst of it, we don’t feel the full impact. Then your dog dies and it all comes rushing in. Death […]

Filed Under: Newly Widowed, Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Milestones, Widowed Emotions Tagged With: #BelovedPets, biglove, #DogsRock, lovestory, @Practicing, decades together, grieving process, widowed emotions

The Anatomy of a Love Song

September 1, 2021 by Kathie Neff Leave a Comment

dan neff

Love Begets Love A lifetime of love, like seeds in soil, sprouts and multiplies in the right conditions. When seeds of love sprout—love blooms. Love begets love. This explains how this precious song arrives here today. The home for this song is a website our family created for Dan named CowboyDan.org. A brain-child of our […]

Filed Under: Newly Widowed, Widowed Effect on Family/Friends, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Emotions Tagged With: biglove, lovestory, tellyourlovestory, widowed emotions, healing through art, newly widwoed

Photographs and Memories

August 18, 2021 by Kathie Neff Leave a Comment

black cowboy hat

Pieces of You Photographs and memories All the love you gave to me Somehow it just can’t be true That’s all I’ve left of you In the midst of meal prep, sorting through items while seeking the right tool in a kitchen drawer, I saw a blackened, overused kitchen fork. It immediately took me to […]

Filed Under: Newly Widowed, Widowed, Widowed Memories, Widowed Emotions Tagged With: smilewithtearsinmyeyes, #grateful, lovestory, memory hunt, decades together, widowed emotions, newly widwoed, #PhotographsAndMemories, biglove, #PiecesOfYou

Of Butterflies, Puppies, and the Dan Neff Dog

July 21, 2021 by Kathie Neff Leave a Comment

woman with puppy and butterfly outdoors

The surprising journey of widowhood. Part of the widowed journey, as I experience it, is having to face new things. Some new things contain the kind of surprises you don’t want to receive. For example, if your partner always took the dog to vet, then the first vet visit on your own might surprise you […]

Filed Under: Newly Widowed, Widowed, Widowed Memories, Widowed Signs from Loved One Tagged With: memory, grieving process, widowed emotions, widows moving forward, #PetsAsFamily, biglove, #DogLove, lovestory

Both / And

June 30, 2021 by Kathie Neff Leave a Comment

Both / And

Both/And thinking [the opposite of either/or thinking] recognizes the folly of assuming that the new will totally supplant the old. Seeing with Both/And eyes recognizes that two opposite realities can be integrated. Adapted from Daniel Burrus at Burrus Research Today marks two months and two weeks since my beloved, Daniel Paul Neff, took his last […]

Filed Under: Newly Widowed, Widowed, Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing Tagged With: decades together, grieving process, widowed emotions, widows moving forward, hope for widowed, widowed grief triggers, biglove

Missing our Papa on Father’s Day

June 23, 2021 by Kathie Neff Leave a Comment

What happens on Father’s Day for the family whose Papa has passed on to another dimension? Is there a way to connect from afar? When my dad passed away in 1994 I wondered, with my siblings, how we could live in a world where he was missing. Each child whose father–or special person–has passed on […]

Filed Under: Newly Widowed, Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Holidays, Uncategorized Tagged With: biglove, lovestory, grieving process, widowed emotions

Big Love

January 15, 2018 by Staci Sulin Leave a Comment

My smile has been gone for a long time.  I wore it effortlessly when Mike was alive.  But, now, my smile feels like an accessory I wear only on special occasions.  I know that it won’t be like this forever because I love life too much to never smile again.  But, for right now, my heart feels empty, And, I see a deficiency of joy in my eyes.

Filed Under: Miscellaneous Tagged With: StaciSulin, lovinginseparation, biglove, smilewithtearsinmyeyes, lovestory, lifestory, tellyourlovestory, tellyourlifestory, thinkoutsidethebox, love

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