On the eve of the new year, 2024, I take pause to reflect on things old and new. It’s been over a year now since you’ve been gone, and I have travelled far along the path of grief in the wake of your absence. There is so much that I miss about you and so much that I wish we could share together in this new year.
But, despite your absence, there is much to be happy about as I contemplate the joy of being a new grandparent and settling into my new job with the Town of Hilliard. These “new” things are exciting and rewarding like the anxious anticipation of the next chapter in a good book.
Grief is not a matter of “out with the old, in with the new”. It is more about the timely recognition and acceptance of the reality that although you are gone, our past will always be part of me that I will carry forward into the next chapter.
So, on this New Year’s Eve, I am choosing to face squarely forward with hopeful optimism for the new things in progress and those yet to come.
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