Wednesday, February 01, 2006
Back to the Grindstone
After taking a week off for a marathon inappropriately called grieving I went back to work today. Since I live in a small community everyone thats been around for a while tends to know everyone else. I didn't really have any idea how deeply my dad had touched people in the community until the last few days. There's been many expressions of condolences and also those who knew not what to say that were clearly skirting the subject. I have to thank all of those people, even those who found it awkward to say anything - their discomfort in itself expresses a feeling of loss and an understandable lack of words that go with it.
Even though we knew the day would come that dad would pass, it was still a great shock to all of the family. However, if there was one thing that dad taught it was not to dwell on the past, you have to move forward and thier will be some tough days, but eventually the sun will shine again.Dad I miss you already.
