Comments on: The Days of Doing Without https://wordsonpageblog.com/2018/03/the-days-of-doing-without.html a freelance writing resource. Fri, 16 Mar 2018 21:35:08 +0000 hourly 1 By: lwidmer https://wordsonpageblog.com/2018/03/the-days-of-doing-without.html#comment-17314 Fri, 16 Mar 2018 21:35:08 +0000 http://wordsonpageblog.com/?p=6518#comment-17314 In reply to Mary Schneider.

Thank you, Mary. For some reason, today is a tough one for me. And tomorrow — it’s St. Patrick’s Day. My holiday. Yet I just don’t want to celebrate. I do, but I really don’t. I will show up at the pub for a short time, but I won’t do the all-day marathon fun and games I’m used to. I feel like being reverent.

Quite a hole he’s left here. 🙁

]]> By: Mary Schneider https://wordsonpageblog.com/2018/03/the-days-of-doing-without.html#comment-17313 Fri, 16 Mar 2018 14:44:00 +0000 http://wordsonpageblog.com/?p=6518#comment-17313 Not sure how I missed this when it posted, I’m sorry for that. I was thinking of you today and was going to drop a note to see how you were doing.

((big hugs)) It’s over 26 years and I still miss my dad every single day. It doesn’t go away, but the ache fades and the memories keep you moving forward. He sounds like an amazing man.

Take care of you, Friend. (hugs)
Mary

]]> By: Devon Ellington https://wordsonpageblog.com/2018/03/the-days-of-doing-without.html#comment-17292 Wed, 07 Mar 2018 15:23:26 +0000 http://wordsonpageblog.com/?p=6518#comment-17292 Sending you lots of love.

]]> By: lwidmer https://wordsonpageblog.com/2018/03/the-days-of-doing-without.html#comment-17284 Mon, 05 Mar 2018 19:28:07 +0000 http://wordsonpageblog.com/?p=6518#comment-17284 In reply to Joy Drohan.

Thank you, Joy. 🙂

]]> By: Joy Drohan https://wordsonpageblog.com/2018/03/the-days-of-doing-without.html#comment-17283 Fri, 02 Mar 2018 13:49:41 +0000 http://wordsonpageblog.com/?p=6518#comment-17283 What a beautiful remembrance, Lori. May we all be so loved and missed. I think if everyone had a parent like your dad, this world would be a different place. Thinking of you!

]]> By: lwidmer https://wordsonpageblog.com/2018/03/the-days-of-doing-without.html#comment-17282 Thu, 01 Mar 2018 19:27:54 +0000 http://wordsonpageblog.com/?p=6518#comment-17282 In reply to Paula Hendrickson.

That’s true, Paula. I catch myself pointing my finger in that same sly, funny way my grandmother did.

Well, I’m hoping the part he left me was his fishing ability (though I think in a few cases, I out-fished him). He did give me his fishing pole and reel a few months back. I felt like I’d struck gold. 🙂

]]> By: Paula Hendrickson https://wordsonpageblog.com/2018/03/the-days-of-doing-without.html#comment-17281 Thu, 01 Mar 2018 18:29:48 +0000 http://wordsonpageblog.com/?p=6518#comment-17281 That sounds like a lovely service, Lori, and very befitting the man himself.

After the acute stages of loss ease, you’ll see those same mannerisms and laughter and quicks in yourself or your family members. I can’t count how often my siblings and I say (about ourselves or one another)< "That was SO Dad!" Or "You sound just like Grandma." My sister and I even noticed our late aunt-by-marriage's mannerisms in her niece.

In time seeing those things will bring comfort and a sense that your dad has never really left any of you. He's part of you all.

]]> By: lwidmer https://wordsonpageblog.com/2018/03/the-days-of-doing-without.html#comment-17280 Thu, 01 Mar 2018 18:24:17 +0000 http://wordsonpageblog.com/?p=6518#comment-17280 In reply to Cathy Miller.

Love you right back, Cathy. And you’re right — the memories bring everything back into the present, don’t they?

]]> By: Cathy Miller https://wordsonpageblog.com/2018/03/the-days-of-doing-without.html#comment-17279 Thu, 01 Mar 2018 18:19:44 +0000 http://wordsonpageblog.com/?p=6518#comment-17279 Beautiful tribute, Lori. I feel like I know your dad through your words and memories. Time knows no end as memories bring our yesterdays, today, and tomorrow in a sweet embrace of comfort. Love you, Lori.

]]> By: lwidmer https://wordsonpageblog.com/2018/03/the-days-of-doing-without.html#comment-17277 Thu, 01 Mar 2018 17:29:34 +0000 http://wordsonpageblog.com/?p=6518#comment-17277 In reply to Jake Poinier.

Thank you, Jake. It’s the habit of calling and talking to him that’s getting me right now. And the thought that I can’t tell him about what’s happening with the kids. And the idea that now, he really isn’t going back to the fishing cottage anymore.

I know what you mean, Jake. These are things I can’t see myself forgetting or fully recovering from. Just moving on is all I can hope for, knowing that there’s a pretty sizable hole that can’t be filled any longer.

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