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I’ll Be Seeing You

June 22, 2022 by Kathie Neff Leave a Comment

painted image of Billie Holiday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9l44_n60QQ8 I’ll be seeing you just yesterday you reminded me of your presence when a monarch butterfly came so close to me…flew into the garage and looked around….at the story, when the paint brushes I need showed up in the most unlikely place . . . I am seeing you . . . In all […]

Filed Under: Newly Widowed, Widowed, Widowed Memories, Widowed Emotions Tagged With: signs of you, memories, reflecting back, decades together, newly widwoed

AND THIS HAPPENED

December 15, 2021 by Kathie Neff Leave a Comment

AS TIME MARCHES ON The sun rises each day and the moon climbs high at night, marking the passing of time. It has been 243 days and so many things have happened since Dan died. Days, weeks, and months pass and it feels strange when I take stock of time’s passing. It helps to do […]

Filed Under: Newly Widowed, Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed and Healing Tagged With: newly widwoed, #CNN hero, #IndyDoggie, love, lovestory

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: biglove, lovestory, decades together, grieving process, widowed emotions, newly widwoed, hope for widowed

I MISS THE OLD ME

October 26, 2021 by Kathie Neff Leave a Comment

Who Am I Now? The new me was born on April 15, 2021. The new me attended a four day conference with my new name found in its title: widow. The new me is still trying to figure things out. I’m not the same person I was before Dan died. I cannot turn the clock […]

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Traveling in the Land of Grief – Part Two

September 22, 2021 by Kathie Neff Leave a Comment

  Images speak louder than words. The concentric layers of trees, in the gorgeous photo above, remind me of grief—its stages and the overall journey that begins when death arrives at our door. It speaks to me of spaces of rest along the journey and the familiar fog of being in an unknown land. Little […]

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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: healing through art, newly widwoed, biglove, lovestory, tellyourlovestory, widowed emotions

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 […]

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Covid Takes and Gives

July 28, 2021 by Kathie Neff Leave a Comment

History Will Bear Witness History will bear witness to the terrible costs of the Worldwide Pandemic known as Covid-19 in the year 2020. In tallying those costs, nothing can compare to the loss of lives: 627,039 in the USA and 4.16 million worldwide to date. Over four million people–gone. The Covid Pandemic took husbands, wives, […]

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90 Days

July 14, 2021 by Kathie Neff Leave a Comment

It’s been ninety days without you. When this post publishes it will be exactly 90 days since I walked you to the white van parked in our driveway to see you off. The night was cool, being after midnight, and the kind ushers walked in slow motion as they made their way step by careful […]

Filed Under: Newly Widowed, Widowed, Widowed Memories, Widowed and Healing Tagged With: #permanence, widowed grief triggers, widowed emotions, newly widwoed

A Long Strange Trip

May 1, 2014 by Stephanie Vendrell Leave a Comment

I lost my husband on February 17, 2013. Mike had a heart attack in his sleep; he was 59. I was about a month away from my 45th birthday, and we were a few months away from our 14th wedding anniversary. I found him that morning. It was the single most shocking and horrible thing that’s ever happened to me. The past 439 days have been the longest,…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Suddenly Tagged With: stephanie vendrell, suddenly widowed, newly widwoed, young widow, widow, widowed questioning

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