Category: Dark Thoughts
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Dear dad,
You died today. While I was sitting in a window at the end of a long hallway in the hospital, waiting for what was now the inevitable, a ladybug landed on me. We were in the midst of a sweltering April, something that hadn’t happened in many years. It was…
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Judge Not, Lest Ye Be Judged
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in…
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All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother – Abraham Lincoln
I almost didn’t write this. I didn’t want to write this, because I am not really comfortable with feeling feelings that make me feel badly. (Say that 5 times fast.) I could have written it and done the electronic version of throwing it in the fire, cathartically deleting it, but…
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Grief is a Funny, Fickle Beast
Grief and I have a complicated relationship. He and I have danced many times in the course of my life, and his talons have been firmly latched into my back since April 12, 2001. At times, he’ll release his grasp for a brief moment, and then in a flash, he’s…
N.K. Murray 