I just found out my friend Sandy died yesterday. A moment where I hear the news and I can’t hear anything else for a couple minutes.
I am Okay. Mostly I am having a painful but sweet experience of pure love… the grief is inseparable from the gratitude. She was a wonderful woman – I’d mentioned her only a few days ago, because she was/is tough as fuck and taught/teaches me to be grateful and to keep things in perspective. She was fucking BAD-ass. I learned a lot of wisdom from her – including what’s quoted in this post title.
Sandy wasn’t just a friend, she was a mentor to me and the first mentor I’ve lost since I got sober. She pointed at me the other day in a room full of people and called me a Miracle. And yeah, that was really nice to hear because coming from her, I know it’s truth.
Loss isn’t so bad, not if we appreciate things while we have them. Sandy is another example of how this is true. I expressed my love to her freely and she knew I loved her, and I knew she loved me. I will be at her memorial service.
I am sitting quietly with this loss. We’ll see where it goes.
oh, love, my condolences. A hug in your grieve.
so sorry to hear it. i sit quietly with reading about your loss. any eloquence i might possess in life often vanishes when trying to communicate compassionately about death and illness and pain. i have been not very commenty lately, i feel, and that’s perhaps for the lack of eloquence i imagine i exhibit. but fwiw, i hold you and your family in my heart and think of you often.
I am so sorry for the loss of your friend.
Thank you ladies!