If you have been following my blog recently you have noticed a lot of food posts. I actually enjoy writing them and not sure why I hadn’t started this earlier, I have been taking pictures of food for a long time (and I am sure driving my friends crazy along the way). I will be writing more about the things I am passionate about, so stay tuned for great stories around my photos (and food).

I try to live my life authentically and the real truth is I have been looking for new stories to share with y’all to avoid talking about the event that is now very fast approaching, the one year anniversary of Heath’s passing. There, wrote it, ripped off the band aid.

My niece has been taking guitar lessons for several months now. Going to their house and hear her picking and strumming is something I have really come to enjoy. One visit I was in the kitchen and she was in the dining room practicing. All of a sudden I hear the opening chords to Here Comes the Sun by the Beatles. I instantly took a breath and was affected by this. I always called Heath, sunshine, because he always looked at the glass is half full and that each day is an opportunity to be a great day.

I am a believer in signs and have had many over the past 12 months. Whenever I hear this song, I pause and smile.

Today I feel like the “long cold lonely winter” has been the past year of grieving. Many people shared with me that it does take a full year to go through ‘it’. I can still remember one of my co-workers at WE telling me that first week, “the only way to get through it, is to go through it”. It is true. It is lonely, it is painful, it is not linear. Those 5 steps – denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance. Someone I know just lost someone very close to her and she shared these words yesterday – The irony of grief is that the person you need to talk to about how you feel is the person who is no longer here. That it is what it is.

Here comes the sun
Here comes the sun, and I say
It’s all right.

Little darling, it’s been a long cold lonely winter
Little darling, it feels like years since it’s been here.

Here comes the sun (doo doo doo)
Here comes the sun, and I say
It’s all right.

Little darling, the smiles returning to the faces
Little darling, it seems like years since it’s been here.

Here comes the sun
Here comes the sun, and I say
It’s all right.

Sun, sun, sun, here it comes
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes
Little darling, I feel that ice is slowly melting
Little darling, it seems like years since it’s been clear
Here comes the sun
Here comes the sun, and I say
It’s all right

Here comes the sun.
It’s all right

Thinking of everyone that is going on their own journey and where you may be on it.

Live your best life,

Lisa

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