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Letter 41 – I Want to See You
Dear Garrett, After my visit with Annee, the medium, things weren’t suddenly, magically, okay. It wasn’t as if, now that I had heard that you were a happy spirit in the universe, I said, yay, everything is now right in the land. No. That didn’t happen. It did have a great impact on me. It…

Letter 15 – Being a Parent is Heartbreaking
Dear Garrett, When you were very young, I used to think to myself, how heartbreaking this is. To be a mother is so heartbreaking. I don’t know if other mothers felt this way, but I did for you. I saw such vulnerability in you. I wanted to protect you from the world. My heart…

Letter 12 – The Horses by the River
Garrett, The other day I was walking Koda by the river. Walking Koda is a good time to think about you and talk to you in my mind. I don’t usually get very far in the conversation, mostly because as soon as I think of you the grief creeps in and I drop into…

Letter 54 – My Mother and Her Mother
Garrett, When you died, my family went into a tailspin. My parents, my brother and my sister. My brother and sister were probably mostly concerned for me, after the initial shock of hearing the news. My parents, though, they took it hard, bud. Really hard. Not only did they hurt for me, but they…

Letter 58 – Kittens
Garrett, We got kittens. They are so fun. They remind me that I can love. That I can love something new. They are sweet and soft. And they make me laugh. I didn’t think I could take on kittens when Genevieve asked for them. I’m too broken to do this, I thought to myself…

Letter 46 – Thinking About Those Comments
Dear Garrett, I better understand now the people whose comments I saw online that said, It’s been years and I feel like this happened only yesterday. I understand now more than I did before. Before, when everything was new, I was scared by those words. I didn’t want to be stuck feeling the way I felt…