Slip, sliding away as the world turns

Another young life brought to a full stop by cancer.... 28 and dead...mother of two young children and dead... what is there to say except that I really feel it for my friend and his family- to lose your youngest sibling is ineffable. For a parent to lose a child is unnatural, goes against all nature, to lose a mother without having the chance to get to know her and to be known by her- simply unthinkable....

But life goes on...
The world does not stop for anyone to get off
Time passes
Seasons change
The world turns...
Life is lived
Not with the old picture of how it was
Or with the image of how it should have been but with the reality of how it is-
a new piece on the wall entitled "LIFE MINUS ONE"....
Changing the configuration of portraits still to be taken...
Embracing the pain, being filled by the loss,
Allowing grief to do its job,
To be an emblem of the fact you loved, even with the knowledge that you will lose, you loved
Holding on dearer to those who remain, cherishing them and remembering,
Always remembering the rare and fleeting gift of the lives of those who were
Being ever conscious of the fact that "death does not invalidate life"
Deciding to live a life worthy of their memory, their gift, their legacy....