Category: Before and After – Days of Loss

(Start HERE  for full “Before and After” series ) Go HERE for Day 4 Part 1 ___________________ A lot happened this day. The two visits with Collin and Paul were key as we beginto process what has happened   As we left home, I grabbed a few choir CD’s. “Rescue” a song we learned just a…

(Start HERE  for full “Before and After” series) Visit to A Funeral Home We must go see him, but it’s not him. Why must I see him like this? I know I must. But my legs don’t want to move. My feet do not want to take me down this hall to where his body lies….

(Start HERE for full “Before and After” series) Alone Again I am in the middle of a DC10. It’s dark. We don’t turn on the overhead light. I can’t believe I am taking this journey. Mom and Dad sitting across the aisle a few rows ahead their hearts breaking like mine.   “I’ll miss his phone…

(Start HERE for full “Before and After” series) Tuesday, November 8, 2005 – He’s gone 4:30 am Carol calls to tell us things do not look good and they are airlifting him to Billings. She says we should plan to come and I wonder why. I still don’t believem but for the first time I am…

(Start “Before and After” series HERE) I remember a few vignette’s from the day, but very little of how I felt. Mostly I was numb.T he possibilities were too terrible to contemplate. I wake up – How did I sleep – denial? I am to facilitate a small conference call at 9:00 am, but I…

It’s the 7th anniversary of an event that became a “before and after” event in my life. Seven years ago my brother, Gordon, was hunting in the mountains, got lost, and was not found before he died of hypothermia. As this website is a place for me to record my journey for me and for…

Today is the seventh anniversary of hearing of my brother, Gordon’s is lost at the end of a day of hunting. He would be found two days later, having succumbed to hypothermia. It’s a day I pause to honor and remember my brother. This morning, Pandora Internet Radio randomly (?) played “Be still and know…