Remembrance

Today marks two years since Eunice died. At first things were cloudy and the words of a song drifted through my mind. The house is quiet since you left me, there’s no love within its walls, only the lonesome sound of empty into the silence falls, other men can lose a lover, bounce back like a rubber ball, I’m just not like those others, I’m just not coping well at all. The following spring, I went back to work as a sub but an eye problem caused me to resign in the fall. Then I remembered a line from the movie, Shawshank Redemption, where the man said, you either get busy living or get busy dying so I joined a book club. Next, I joined a group where people had lost a spouse and then a group where people had spouses with dementia. Next a group of grandpas who meet every day for coffee and then I started going to the nursing home. I told the residence that I needed their help to get past my empty house. I go to my daughter’s house for Sunday brunch. I now realize that God was watching over me in those last years and how He is guiding me today. I guess you might say, that I have decided to get busy living.