Surviving Grief

🌿 From the Center of Ourselves: Finding Peace After Loss "When we start at the center of ourselves, we discover something worthwhile extending toward the periphery of the circle... joy in the now... peace in the here... love in me and thee." —G. F. Sear 💭 When Grief Interrupts the Everyday Our minds so often return to the person we lost. The memories, the silence, the things left undone— They live quietly beneath the surface of our days. Today, while cooking dinner, something shifted. I didn’t have to chop the hamburger as finely as Mark liked it. That realization felt oddly freeing— And then immediately, it ached. Because of course I’d gladly dice meat into a hundred tiny pieces if it meant he could sit beside me at the table again. 🎶 Choosing a Different Response That small moment could’ve undone me. But instead, I made a choice. I turned on our favorite playlist. Let the music fill the space between sorrow and silence. He was there in every lyric. But so was...