Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Soaring Spirits Loss Foundation

In March of 2009 I wrote about a widow resource, I was recently contacted by the blog owner to add my blog to the blog list , You can find me under widowed in 2007.  For those that may come referred by that site please know that I do not write solely about widowhood, I write about anything and everything I feel I need to get out of my head.  I hope that any new reader's find the same comfort I found in many of the blogs I read about widowhood.  

Thursday, December 16, 2010

‎"There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope." ~George Elliot

Friday, December 10, 2010


"Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don't hang around long enough for his or her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people."~Zig Ziglar

Thursday, December 2, 2010

"It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are - not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within - that you can begin to take control."

RIP Tinted Windows

Most people tint their car windows to have a hip car etc....not me...I had all my windows tinted so that I was no longer vulnerable to the world.

In my early widowhood days most of my crying was done while driving in my car, I felt this was the one place I could be me, didn't have to be strong, could get in a REALLY GOOD cry without anyone being around. It's where I would play his funeral play list over and over, torturing myself. It's where I would talk out loud to him, talk out loud to myself...and feel like no one could see me. I knew it was illegal to have the front windows tinted, but didn't care, it was my safe place. Well the time has finally come that I was pulled over (3 years later) and had to remove the front tint. Jess did it today and boy was it bittersweet when I received a the picture shown. As much as it will be missed, I am glad that it is gone...it was a constant reminder of the "emotional cleansing" that would occur. I have evolved and my crying has lessened and when I do I have found a indoor location LOL....so I am ready for my car to be my car again, not my safe haven.
RIP Tined Windows 12/2/10