30 January 2023: Second funeral/wake in the last three days, this time the father of a friend/former colleague. Looking at the pictures of my friend's dad--a lifetime of family and memories--it was so clear how much he loved them all and how happy being their dad or husband or grandfather made him. I told my friend that I could see that (and knew as much from everything she's ever said about him). "It was always unconditional," she said. I told her, "It looks like it was an easy kind of love--just pure and there." She said, "It was. You never felt like you had to earn it." What a gift. Hoping I can be like that for the people I care about because in the end, not much matters more.
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