Category: loss

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loss

My Brother’s Lead, My Brother’s Legacy

Anyone who has lost someone close to them knows what I mean when I say there’s a hole in my heart that won’t ever be filled. At least not on this earth. My brother Greg’s absence is an abyss not only within me, but also in the family landscape. It is always there, but at times it seems more dangerous or delicate to walk around it, like at birthday, or on the anniversary of his accident, and at other significant events.

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Faith

My Brother Greg

I’ve been thinking a lot about my brother Greg lately. My parents’ son. So many peoples’ friend. The years since the car accident that took him from us have added up to more than I wish to count, but numbers don’t always correspond with experience. Sometimes I feel he is closer today than he was ten, even fifteen, years ago. Memory can be precious like that. It doesn’t age.

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Faith

Shore Breaks

And he is everywhere but where he should be, Images of his poor kid-body washed up on the beach like seaweed seared across our screens.

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loss

My Brother’s Lead, My Brother’s Legacy

Anyone who has lost someone close to them knows what I mean when I say there’s a hole in my heart that won’t ever be filled. At least not on this earth. My brother Greg’s absence is an abyss not only within me, but also in the family landscape. It is always there, but at times it seems more dangerous or delicate to walk around it, like at birthday, or on the anniversary of his accident, and at other significant events.

Read More
Faith

My Brother Greg

I’ve been thinking a lot about my brother Greg lately. My parents’ son. So many peoples’ friend. The years since the car accident that took him from us have added up to more than I wish to count, but numbers don’t always correspond with experience. Sometimes I feel he is closer today than he was ten, even fifteen, years ago. Memory can be precious like that. It doesn’t age.

Read More
Faith

Shore Breaks

And he is everywhere but where he should be, Images of his poor kid-body washed up on the beach like seaweed seared across our screens.

Read More