These days are so full. Charlotte is one week old now. Matt’s grandma passed away on Wednesday morning, Charlotte’s due date. Her funeral is today in Iowa, on Matt’s and my 12th anniversary together. It’s unbelievably hard to not be there right now to celebrate the life of this amazingly generous, sweet, and loving woman.
Life cycles are piling up all around us and we’re holding on to all the best parts of everything as we go. Life is hard, but great. As the Amos Kennedy poster over our bed tells me every morning, “Life is short but, as long as you got it, make something of it.”
I posted this last year and just have to post it again because its meaning has only grown: Wendell Berry’s “October 10″.
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