An Early Valentine Options

[Kaill64]

An Early Valentine

As my husband and I will be out of town for the next week, I am posting this now.

This will be my first Valentine’s Day without Trixie and I know that many of you will be facing this day without your babies for the first time in a long time, as well. I wish everyone who reads this a peaceful February 14th and a day filled with happy, cherished memories of the ones you have loved and lost.

You all have made a difference in my life and the lives of countless others, I am sure. And that is a deed to which few can lay claim. Thank You for listening, for giving advice, for commiserating, for understanding, for crying, for celebrating, and for mourning along with me and everyone else who posts here. I wish I could say all of this in person and give each and every one of you a big hug. Instead, I’m going to re-post the words that have given me so much hope and comfort from the beginning – I hope that you receive at least a little of the same…….

Peace and Love,


Kai

A parable of Immortality

by Henry Van Dyke

I am standing upon the seashore. A ship at my side spreads her white sails
to the morning breeze and starts for the blue ocean. She is an object of
beauty and strength and I stand and watch until at last she hangs like a
speck of white cloud just where the sea and sky come down to mingle with
each other. Then someone at my side says, "there she goes ".

Gone where? Gone from my sight...that is all. She is just as large in mast
and hull and spar as she was when she left my side and just as able to bear
her load of living freight to the place of destination. Her diminished size
is in me, not in her. And just at the moment when someone at my side says,
"there she goes", there are other eyes watching her coming and other voices
ready to take up the glad shout, "here she comes".