Wasn’t it just yesterday that Dave gave me his good-bye bear hug as he left for Utah? Or, was it a lifetime ago? In “real time” it’s been two years, but the heart is timeless. I once asked a group of parents, who each has lost a child, if the raw hurt ever lessens as time goes on and their answer was, “You just learn to live with it better.”
They were right. The pain is always right below the surface ready to pop-up at any time. Emotions continue to ambush you without warning, but life does go on. You smile and laugh again, but not as brightly or with your entire being. There’s that part of you that has forever changed.
We continue to honor Dave by traveling to new places and experiencing new challenges that Dave would love. As this entry is posted, Rob and I, along with Bob and Jan, will be spreading some of Dave’s ashes in beautiful surroundings somewhere along the Kenai River in Alaska.
This is the trip that Dave planned to take with me. Even though he won’t be physically sitting next to me, he will be in my heart every step of the way.
“It is only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time of earth and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as it it were the only one we had.” (Eliz. Kubler-Ross)
Dave lived life to the fullest!!
And we miss him terribly!
Pat(Dave’s Mom)
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