The Deafening Silence

I Miss Your Face…

When Evan first passed away just 2 1/2 months ago I spent most of the day-every day for weeks thinking about him. I was either replaying things we did or said or thinking about what I was doing without him and how much I missed him. I constantly looked at old videos and photos, listened to […]

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The Deafening Silence

I Love You…

I want to talk about love today. After someone dies love becomes something confusing in many ways. Think about it. They die. Their Facebook becomes memorialized, their lives are tucked away neatly, cleared out, dealt with-sometimes with lots of unnecessary drama. And in the end their lives are placed into the “memories” category. But what […]

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The Deafening Silence

Be Magic…

This past week I discovered something so amazing I had to share with you guys. I had coffee with my new (and quickly dear) friend Ann Marie a few weeks ago and she told me about a DNA test she’d done where a particular portion was missing. It was the gene that creates “feel good” chemicals […]

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The Deafening Silence

Do Something Amazing Every Day?

Some days are awesome. I see light and feel happy all day. And some days are really hard. Yesterday was a hard day. As I thought about why I realized that it’s the days when Evan is very active and I can feel him strongly that I miss him more. At least I think that’s […]

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The Deafening Silence

Choose Happy…

  Today I’m being shown VERY clearly that in all things we are to try our best to choose to FEEL happy. Easy? Nope. It’s raining and I miss Evan…but it’s like this whisper telling me to stop feeling sad and to just feel happy. Probably why he sends me that song all the time […]

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The Deafening Silence

And The Walls Kept Tumbling Down…

I’m going to the ocean this weekend. It’s going to rain at least on Friday night and Saturday but that’s ok. It matches how I feel so often these days. Like my friend Cindy says of rain, it’s peaceful and cleansing. She’s from Seattle, I’m from Maine-guess we got used to rain lol. Anyway I […]

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