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This blog is my record of my journey with my son who had a rare, and eventually fatal metabolic illness. It is the story of the last year and a half of his life, his death, and after. I have shared this journey this in the hopes that is will not only help me come to terms with the realities, but also that someone along the way may find it helpful, as they face a similar journey.







This is my place to comment on events, blow off steam, encourage myself (and maybe you), share frustrations, show my love, grieve my losses, express my hopes, and if I am lucky, maybe figure out some of this crazy place we call life on earth.





The content might sometimes get a little heavy. As an understatement..







WARNING:







People who are grieving may write sad or difficult things and bring you down. This blog may not be for the faint of stomach or of heart. Read with caution and at your own risk.





If you are new to this blog, I suggest reading it from oldest to newest. It isn't necessary, as what I write is complete in itself. But this blog is sort of the result of the "journey" I'm going on, and I think it sort of "flows" better from oldest to newest.



I do hope that in the end you will find, in spite of all the difficult and heartbreaking things, things that are worth contemplating.





Welcome along!





Sunday, June 26, 2011

Another "Joel Garden."

I have some blogs to write, I know, but for now, I'm taking it a bit easy...

So I'm going to put up some pictures here of something special to me.  I have make a "Garden" on Joel's grave.  But that wasn't quite close enough for me.  So I wrote quite a while back that I was also planting his name in my front flower bed.

And now it is finally starting to look like I had conceived in the beginning.  Still not perfect.  I'm not a pro gardener or anything.  But I think you can still get a sense of it from the pictures.  And they were taken a few days ago.  It actually looks even nicer now.  So maybe there will be more pictures soon.

As I said, it's not perfect.  But when I see it, it feels like my heart out there, blooming...





Don't know if you could read that, it's clearer when you see them in a row.

If you still can't see it, then here are some of the pretty flowers in the "Garden," and I'll put up better pics another time.  For now:




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