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Saturday, November 10, 2007
Saying Goodbye
November is a weird month for me. I get very reflective, and like the other day when I got to thinking about my wife's brain tumor. This week I have been thinking alot about my maternal grandpa. I miss my grandpa......he died over 18 years ago but I still think about him a lot. We used to go fishing when I was a little kid, early morning before the sun even came up. They are some of my most cherished memories that I have. He wasn't just a grandpa to me.......Today was the first time I had went to his grave. He died when I was in the service over in Germany. I had actually been home a month prior and got to see him before he passed. If I loved him so much why did it take me so long to visit? .......I didn't want to have to say goodbye. I guess I thought that maybe by not going, that it wouldn't be real.....I know it's stupid....it's just how I felt. It's hard to sum up a person's life in a few minutes or even a few paragraphs. And talking about stuff like this is hard for me. I just wish you all could have met him......he was a great grandpa........
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Hey Heath, I totally understand how you feel, I feel the same way about my Grandma and she has been gone for 11 years. I feel like we don't really have to say goodbye because there is always a part of these people with us in our life. Their spirits carry on within all of the people they touched the way your grandpa did and my grandma did.
Here's the place I go.
Heath, your posts are just resonating with me during NaVloPoMo. I still owe you a video and now I owe it double. I miss my grandparents so much, especially my grandma - no one has ever loved me more than she did, that's for sure. And my dad. He didn't get to see so many of the things in my life that he wanted to see. The only thing that can never die is love - it just goes on and on, moving through you, moving mountains. Thanks for sharing this moment. I won't forget it.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts with us.
You're a man of soul and sensitivity, Heath. Thanks for sharing these intimate moving moments.
Thank you for sharing such a touching personal moment. My grandmother passed this year, and she never got to see my boy who is now 3. Your video made me weep. When I heard my grandmother died, I wrote this... http://djelectricdaddy.blogspot.com/2007/03/death-in-family.html
Isnt NaVloPoMo wonderful, everyone sharing their lives like this.
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