Grief

This month, two of our friends have died from Covid. Both dads my husband’s age. We live so far away that it hardly seems really, but as we slowly absorb this knowledge the grief slowly rises.

And with it, the fear – the feeling of death encroaching.

A million years ago in another century, another lifetime, a friend and colleague of mine died in a bus accident and I remember her husband saying at the memorial service “cover your loved ones in death,” because that will cause you to live your love for them, daily. To be present to their presence. Listen to their beating hearts and love them.