A sea of red lights, and I slow down. My job now is to gather everyone together and tell them we have to let her go. I won't tell anyone over the phone, because I didn't like hearing the news from the doctor that way. I have maybe a week to handle the arrangements, as the doctor said, but the arrangements are overwhelming. How do I learn how to run a family? How do I say goodbye to someone I love so much that I've forgotten just how much I love her? . Kaui Hart Hemmings
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I am not a religious person. I don't like to talk about god. I believe that god is not real. However, when I was driving home tonight and saw that giant cross in the sky, I started to cry.

I thought about all the times my husband and I got lost in the woods and how we spun around and around trying to find our way out. The clouds started to look like a giant cross and it looked like we were finally going to make it out of the woods and be able to see the light at the end of the tunnel. But instead we found yet another twisty trail and ended up in our own little forest again. Today seemed like a good day to begin looking at our hope chest for Christmas presents for next year.

We've been waiting until the last minute every year because we just don't know what we want when we're there looking at what's there. Today, though, when we opened up the trunk of the car, my heart sank. There were all these presents stacked up on one side, but none on the other side.

When did we stop putting things away? While cleaning out a storage area for items that don't get used anymore, I came across a box with what looked like a string tied around it. When I took off the string, however, I found a little note tucked inside with a list of names written on it. These are people who have asked me over the years to remember them in some way from another time in their life when they needed someone to help them through something difficult or scary or even just brokenhearted .

There was one name that really stuck out - Debb from college - who asked me to remember her when she was going through a messy divorce and suicidal thoughts after her husband left her for another woman while he waited for his court-ordered counseling sessions to conclude before moving on with his life. Today's poem is from an old friend of mine who has been fighting cancer for almost two years now: "I love you today as much as yesterday" My friend is not feeling well today so she asked me not to post this until tomorrow but I couldn't wait so here it is! You can read more about her battle with cancer here . This morning while getting dressed, I decided that I really needed to start doing dishes after meals more often than just tossing them into the sink after dinner each night. So instead of just grabbing my laundry basket full of dirty clothes and running out the door

Source: The Descendants

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