You will, I’m sure, pardon my absence this past week.
Yesterday my family and I came together to say goodbye to our Mother. It was the first time we had all been together in about ten years. We are siblings, yes, but in many respects, we are strangers, too.
Our once-large family has been decimated. Each of us has gone our separate ways, our paths seldom to cross. But yesterday we shared a common loss. Mother was the last of her generation of this family. And, due to our unshared lives, dreams, and hopes I can’t help wondering when, if ever, we will all gather again. The thread that held us loosely together has been severed.
Rest in peace Mother Norma Grace Wright.
About Ol' Big Jim
Jim L Wright has been a storekeeper, an embalmer, a hospital orderly, and a pathology medical coder, and through it all, a teller of tall tales. Many of his stories, like his first book, New Yesterdays, are set in his hometown of Piedmont, Alabama.
For seven years he lived in the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world, Amman, Jordan where he spent his time trying to visit every one of the thousands of Ammani coffee shops and scribbling in his ever-present notebook.
These days he and his husband, Zeek, live in a cozy little house in Leeds, Alabama. He’s still scribbling in his notebooks when he isn’t gardening or refinishing a lovely bit of furniture.
His book, New Yesterdays, can be found at Amazon US, Amazon UK, Smashwords, and Barnes and Noble.
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I’m so sorry for your loss, Jim. Moms are special and I hope your memories of her will sustain you at this time.
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So sorry to hear of your loss, our Jim.
I understand your pain. Caz
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Good bye cousin
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So sorry for your loss. I lost my mother last year
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Condolences on your loss. It’s a difficult thing to get through. Many emotions creep in unexpectedly and leave one in a bit of a daze; don’t you think?
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Yes hard to believe they’re gone at times
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