{"id":310,"date":"2011-12-18T16:47:15","date_gmt":"2011-12-18T23:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.205.130\/?p=310"},"modified":"2011-12-18T16:47:15","modified_gmt":"2011-12-18T23:47:15","slug":"birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewismoon.com\/?p=310","title":{"rendered":"Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Sharon\u2019s Blog:<\/em><\/p>\n

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You would have been 68 today.<\/p>\n

In my heart you are still alive and here.\u00a0 I remember you everyday.\u00a0 All of us who loved you do.\u00a0 You are that close to us, so present you made yourself in our lives.\u00a0 You changed who we were and loved us so much that we could never forget YOU.\u00a0\u00a0 Your joy became our joy as our joy became yours.<\/p>\n

Your eyes sparkled with the joy of family life:\u00a0 babies, burps, bunnies\u2026sounds and silence: never rushed or reckless, you listened and loved us in an unforgettable way.<\/p>\n

Your clients still reach out to tell me a story about how you touched their lives and how you still do.\u00a0\u00a0 The grandchildren always talk about you with happy and reverent tones.<\/p>\n

I knew how lucky, how very blessed, I was to have you in my life.\u00a0\u00a0 And I remember how we would look at each other with disbelief to think that we could or would ever come to an end of our time together\u2013the love that we shared was so intense and passionate that we could not imagine ourselves in the pangs of death.\u00a0 How could it end?<\/p>\n

You were never afraid of death.\u00a0 You consciously became more and more ready as you weathered the years.\u00a0 More than two years later, I have found your preparatory letters, the living will, and all that I knew was confirmed.\u00a0 You made yourself clear.\u00a0 There could be no mistaking your will.\u00a0 Nothing had been misunderstood.<\/p>\n

Your passing remains an unsolved mystery of my unfinished journey.\u00a0 The solitude is still and silent and does not provide answers to the unending questions.\u00a0\u00a0 Why did we miss the signs of your illness?\u00a0 You were happy to the end.\u00a0\u00a0 That last evening you were sitting next to me on the couch mimicking our canary in a joyful duet.\u00a0\u00a0 Then you were gone.<\/p>\n

I have continued and I don\u2019t know how.\u00a0 Some days are like a dream.\u00a0\u00a0 Nothing suffices the chasm of your loss.\u00a0 There is still much to be enjoyed, but my desire is dimmed and diminished by your departure.<\/p>\n

We had made each other the center of our lives.\u00a0 How can one be gone and the other remain?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I am less and yet more than I was.\u00a0 I have had to grow parts of me that I didn\u2019t need before.\u00a0 Yes, I have remained.<\/p>\n

Death stands now before me and comes closer each day.\u00a0 Life is inside me pulsing and sustaining each breath, each thought and beginning again.\u00a0\u00a0 The newness never stops.\u00a0 New occasions teach new duties.\u00a0 I remake myself over and over as life\u2019s ebbing waves push me along a new shoreline I am meant to explore.<\/p>\n

And I am held by your love now as then as I make my way forward, sometimes back, yet forward again.\u00a0\u00a0 I will always be searching to find you again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From Sharon\u2019s Blog: You would have been 68 today. In my heart you are still alive and here.\u00a0 I remember you everyday.\u00a0 All of us who loved you do.\u00a0 You are that close to us, so present you made yourself in our lives.\u00a0 You changed who we were and loved us so much that we … Continue reading “Birthday”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewismoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewismoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewismoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewismoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewismoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lewismoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312,"href":"https:\/\/lewismoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions\/312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewismoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewismoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewismoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}