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| A life Duvernay, QC July 2012 This photo originally shared on Instagram |
I share this not to be morose or dark. Life eventually ends for all of us. It’s also a given that we’ll all lose people who matter, and we’ll have to figure out what life looks like afterward. To my eyes, it just doesn’t make sense to choose to live in perpetual shadow.
So I don’t. He led a full, eventful life. He was lucky to have found and married the love of his life, and to have spent 48 years with her raising a family and building a community that continues to beat. He made a difference.
Of course we’d have liked to have had more time. Or for him to have had better health those last few years.
But that’s the thing in life: we get what we get, and we do our best with what we’ve been given.
He did. So that’s what we celebrate.
Happy birthday, Dad. Know you’re remembered well. Know you were, and are, loved.
#family #everything
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