AMEN

"I walked a mile with sorrow and not a word said she, but oh the things that I did learn when Sorrow walked with me"

Once again, the circle diminishes, we close ranks for a day or two or three or four, whatever it takes, we weep, we hug, we laugh and we mourn another family loss. The losses are now closing in from parents to siblings. Life seems more fragile, emptier and infinitely less rich as the funny, warm, spirit of my eldest brother took his leave. He did not go quietly into that dark night. He fought till he could fight no more. I was with him when he stopped his labored breathing and when he took his last breath here, I prayed he was breathing deeply somewhere, for the first time in weeks, free from pain and suffering.

The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away, Blessed be the Name of the Lord. Amen