Sorrow & joy...

"When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight." — Khalil Gibran

Struggling for words here. What to share and what to keep? I'll say that there is deep sorrow within my family right now. We are losing a mother, a grandmother, a great grandmother, our matriarch.

I've never experienced something like this before, hospice. It hurts like an ache, sometimes dull and then sharp and throbbing pain. I might find myself standing in line at a store and then realize I'm sobbing. But we still laugh about silly things and enjoy our time together. So it goes. It feels right to be where I am, at home and surrounded by family and all these memories....

(click the images for more. I tried to add a little more backstory about each image on flickr too.)