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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We have been experiencing what we have labelled the Year of Death.  Basically almost everyone from my parent's generation passed last year in very rapid succession.  We ended up in this place where every single holiday or holiday weekend we ended up attending a funeral -- our anniversary, my husband's birthday, new year's, thanksgiving weekend.  Aunts, uncles, parents.  We kind of lost our minds.  (My kid had to go to two grandparent funerals in one month and she had one of those teachers at school who was like "No way you had TWO grandparents die.  You just don't want to write the essay."  Great.)

We have found ourselves in a situation where we are being forced to adopt that zen wisdom where you both surrender to what is happening to you and decide to just be in the moment.  We have spent more time this year sitting on our front porch drinking coffee and listening to the birds than we have in years.  The sadness and loss is just too big and too great to be anything we can even get our arms and minds around, so we have had no choice but to do things like make muffins and comment on how delicious the blueberries are.  It's been a strange year but perhaps that is the gift.[/quote]

A couple of years ago, we also experienced a "year of death", we actually combined funerals because the time in between passing was so short. And don't even get me started on Grandparents and special friends day at school, ugh! It was a brutal time. One of the things that helped me, especially in the beginning was Anderson Cooper's podcast on grief, All There Is. Hugs to you. [/quote]

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