Precious Time

To watch someone slowly fade away is the most painful thing.

But there is a grace in it too. Unlike so many deaths, a slow death gives not just pain, but peace.

There's time to say the things that you need to say. If you have the courage.

I'm not always so good at speaking those sorts of things. But showing . . . that I can do.

It was my husband's idea; we made a DVD photo slide show for his dad for Father's Day. It was obviously stupid to buy "stuff" for him, since there isn't much time left for things. So we made slide shows of fishing and hunting -- his two favorite things in the world.

Those memories made him laugh and cry.


Not just for us, this grace of time; for him too. He gets a chance to remember, and say goodbye.