Monday, January 14, 2019

1l14l19: Family resolution, hearing and not speaking, listening, caring, empathy expressed, understanding engendered ... love shared

                                                    Fox Den Road snowfall ... 1/14/19

It always helps to share one's feelings. As tough as that can be, the alternative, silence and growing misunderstanding, is unhealthy and just sows distrust and dislike, even among family members, perhaps even more so.

Tonight, we shared in a phone conversation as I walked the snow streets around Deacons Walk with Dancer on leash. I've said something that I've not accounted for and words, certainly written words, on the eternal digital highway, remain and cause pain. I apologized and searched for those words, was unsuccessful but have learned a lesson. Life is precious and sensitive and you may think you're in the right but you can't be objective about your actions and you must be accountable. How to step away and view your response dispassionately, third-personly is a skill that is currently beyond me but I will work to achieve it in some measure.

May 30, 2018 ... Lindsay's 28th birthday, she's celebrating in the Vey's hometown of Chattanooga as I write this post ...


Taken a few days after her 27th birthday, Lindsay & Alex, wed by Rev. Jim Glander shared a humorous moment during their ceremony. Everyone shared, including Corinne Semonti, her Maid-of-Honor, in the laugh as the bride and minister slapped five. 

As so many of my post entries begin, this has been a long interval before writing and there have been many lost opportunities to express my memories of days, now lost to my memory until initiated by events that reawaken those experiences.