On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 11:13:18 -0400, "Daisy"
<sweetdaisy67357@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>Daniel you always know you have your grief family here and you always
will.
>Things will get done when you are ready to get them done sweetheart. You
>have been such an inspiration to me and I know that your father is proud
of
>all the people you have helped through the years in this newsgroup...I
can
>feel him saying "that's my boy!!!) All my love.
Thank you, my dear Daisy, and I know you're right. I'll tell you a
story about that in fact: Yesterday (Sunday) I was in Oakland. I've
mentioned before that after Mom died of a sudden heart attack, I made
myself get interested in taking better care of my health -- took
nearly four years to start an excercise program . . . I started
running several times per week in 2004. Every once in a while I enter
a local road race. Anyway, I was out there yesterday morning in this
race. 10 Kilometers - 6.2 miles. Well, around mile 4 I'm feeling
pretty sorry for myself and I hear this voice: a real voice or a
memory voice but there's Dad's voice saying,"I want you to know how
proud I am of you." And the breeze picked up and I feel this cool
breeze in my face and I look off to my right and there over the lake
is a big white egret, a Snowy Egret, flying across the water up toward
the sunlight. And I pull my attention back to the road in front of
me, and what catches my eye is the plastic bracelet I wear when I run
-- purple for cancer awareness -- that I wear in remembrance of my
dad. On one side it has his name and date of passing (09/04/2005) and
on the other side it just says, "TOGETHER". And I really felt like he
was with me right then, that we really were "together" somehow.
So it's especially comforting to hear you, too, say, "I know that your
father is proud..." -- I feel close to him, and you, and Buster too I
think (I feel like I know him too). I'm rambling.
Peace and hugs every day,
--
Daniel ( deltaechomike@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
)
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