
07/13/2024
Now that the storm has passed and our lives are falling back into some normality my mind reflects over how different this hurricane meant to me. In past hurricanes iI was always my responsibility to see that “Little Nona” was safe and calm. Oh, I worried about Marci, and my other grand children, but when it came to “Little Nona”, I was her security. And Marci and her children had Jim to keep them safe. So, as Bill and I sat with everything battened down and the wind hollowing outside I could almost hear her saying, “Mom, I’m fine!! I’m OK!! It’s so terribly lonely down here without her. Her laugh, her sassy look, and most of all her hugs, but I know she’s ok! As the anniversary of loosing “Little Nona” drew close I was reaching out on FB wondering how it could be put in words all the emotions pouring through my head to describe. A friend who lost their Son two years ago reached out to me with his thoughts on losing a child. I go back and read it when I start feeling all those emotions. I’m sharing it in hopes that it helps as it has me. “Sallie Fisher no, there are no words. You just have to go through it. There is no loss you will ever go through. That will be worse. ..Grief is like a scab on your knee from falling down. Every now and then you hit it and it bleeds a little…It is like walking out into the surf as water laps at your chest, every now and then, a wave goes over your head and then you come back out………………………..and that pretty much tells it all. There are no words! 💞💞