Archive for the ‘My Mom’ Category
fourteen years
25Oct12
I was listening to music tonight and a song came on by an artist who my mother really liked. This particular artist played on the radio every five minutes for a few weeks after my mother died, and some of the lyrics of this song are about being in the arms of angels. It has […]
Filed under: Gratitude, My Mom | Leave a Comment
Tags: Angels, Childhood, Death, Emptiness, Grattitude, Grief, Loneliness, Loss, Motherhood
unconquerable
22Feb12
It would have been my mom’s birthday this week. She passed away over a decade ago, but I still think about her. Certain things remind me of her. Poems are one. She used to love reciting them and getting us to memorize them. Of all of them, this one affects me the most. I still […]
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Tags: Challenge, Destiny, Invictus, Mom, Poetry, Unconquerable, William Ernest Henley