The Circle of Life
I awoke this morning with thoughts running through my head, which isn't unusual - seems my head is constantly full of many thoughts - some deep, some mundane; some I share, some I don't. Today I will share. Much has happened in our family in the past five years. And I've realized that since 2009, there has been a constant sadness in my life, a melancholy that has planted itself deep within. Sure, there have been moments of happiness, days of happiness, but the melancholy always seeps back in; it never seems to quite disappear. Back to my thoughts of this morning. When someone, or something, we love dies, we feel as though we cannot go on. We wonder how life will continue. We believe that life can't possibly continue. And yet it does. Somehow life goes on. Babies are born, marriages occur, children move away and start lives of their own. We get up day after day and go through the motions of every day life. Yes, life does go on. In perusing my old journa