Wight Christmas

the trouble is, you think you have time ~ buddha

Grief, I realized at the memorial for Bob and Dawn Wight today, is really just love. It's all the love you want to give but can't. All of that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes, the lump in your throat, and in that hollow part of your chest. Grief is just love with no place to go. . . 

and in the end
the most important piece of advice
that reading the many journals that 
dawn wrote in for every single hockey 
game her boys ever played in has given me

is to enjoy life
while you're living it
you can never know
which moments will be the ones
*** that you'll remember
and when happiness will hit you

so be open to anything
at anytime
do not sweat over the past
instead learn from it
and make n e w memories
every day

for there is only one life
and one chance

b.b.