Why do you blog?
I started this journey as a way to keep in touch with our family & friends as we made our new life in Alaska. I felt that writing it down once instead of conveying the same message multiple times made much more sense! Now it’s been over a decade. My posts are infrequent and haphazard! But I persist.
They say time heals all wounds, but I rather think that time just passes by. The gaping hole left in our hearts is still there, but it’s hidden behind the life that we’ve lived~the experiences, the joys, and the sorrows~ that have kept us occupied since that day. It’s a little less prominent in the landscape but still there, nonetheless.
Happy birthday Dad. Miss you still.
A candle flickers
out of sight,
but in your heart
I still burn bright.
Think not of sadness,
that I’m not near,
think of gladness
and joyous cheer.
An expert from “Light a Candle” by J., Family Friends Poems, July 28, 2008
Alaska on my mind... 