A New Day

I began blogging last July, and it has been one of the great pleasures of my life. I am committed to sharing my brand of happiness with hope that it will lighten the load others.  Not everyone has a large, tightly bonded family as we do, and we have always opened our doors to embrace others as our own. 

Now is not the time to turn you away, but to welcome you to share our sadness and our healing with us. To those who might might see my sharing as irreverent or disrespectful, I invite them to abstain from reading my words until they are more comfortable. To those who will take this journey with me I remind you of words first uttered in the 16th Century by John Donne, 

"No man is an island entire of itself; every man 
is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; 
if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe 
is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as 
well as any manner of thy friends or of thine 
own were; any man's death diminishes me, 
because I am involved in mankind. 
And therefore never send to know for whom 
the bell tolls; it tolls for thee."

When I went for coffee yesterday at the home of my

eldest son, I was comforted and calmed by the beauty

of the snow, and it reminded me that snow is the great

equalizer. It makes my house and yours equally beautiful.

It covers the ground with no regard for what lies under, 

ant its peaceful beauty awes us all.

Thanks snow. And thank you sun for shining through on 

a day when we especially needed you. 

And thank you, faithful friends, for hearing the bell,

and understanding our heartfelt expression to you, 

that we are saddened by your loss.