Survivors

Of course, death is an experience that is common to all mankind, an experience that touches all members of the human family. I already knew that when someone close to you dies, it really hurts, and that each person reacts differently.

What Do I Do?

How do I get rid of
This continual pain?
The grief that sears through me,
The constant rain?

I should feel happiness
Joy and awe.
But I don't feel anything
Like that at all.

My smile doesn't reach
To the rest of my face
The hopes for tomorrow
Have now been erased.

What do I do?
How do I live

Clinging to Faith

Reaching and clinging to Faith, as the anniversary date approaches. What can be said? It still feels the same and if possible it gets harder. Leaving the pain to rise with in me. How does one go forward when the heart feels like it's ripping inside. Time should allow the hurt to be felt less, but how do you ger past a day that almost makes you feel as your choking.

MY SISTER DIED AND I WAITED SIXTEEN YEARS TO DEAL WITH IT

I never expected to make a documentary film about my family.  I didn’t think of myself as someone who had a story to tell.  My sister had died when I was ten years old and by that time her illness seemed pretty normal to me.  Aimee was diagnosed with leukemia when I was two years old, so I grew up always knowing my older sister was sick.   One of my earliest memories is

Father’s Day – Wishing You a Peaceful Day

Well, here we are, another Fathers’s Day. A day that grieving dads dread. A day that makes us think about being a dad to a child (in my case two children) that has died. Everyday is a day that makes us think about the “what could/should have been’s”, but Father’s Day is one of those hand full of days that makes us reflect a little longer and a little deeper.