Salt Water

"I promised Jimmy before he left that I would not follow him into the darkness. That I would stay in the light he left behind and continue living the life he he fought so hard to keep."
findyourharbor.com/winter-days/

"Closure is a myth, I’m learning. A story we tell ourselves in the hope that it will prove to be true. We might get over a lost job, a major move, even a broken relationship but not the death of one of our essential people."
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"So what do we have left to grab onto, if nothing truly holds? The day before the accident, Harry & I talked about mundane things .. There was no way to know it was the last time I’d see him that way."
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"I will always be the woman whose 1st child died & I won’t give up either the grievance or the bad jokes of everyday life. I will hold onto both forever. I want a book that acknowledges life goes on but that death goes on, too ..."

~Elizabeth McCracken
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"And so I trudge on, walking in the shadow of grief, carrying Jimmy's spirit to light my way forward. Leaving a ghost light on in the space he should be occupying so others can know him, too. Hoping that he will see it and emerge from the darkness ..."
findyourharbor.com/ghost-light/