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Regular
readers of this blog know that I proclaim three months of the year as my “Blue
Period:” February 12, the date of my wife’s death; March 13, her birthday; and
April 8, our wedding anniversary. I have just passed through this time of
mourning and remembrance for the ninth time. Each year, I find these three
months get a bit easier.
But
once in a while, something comes out of the blue and whacks me in the head…
usually all out of proportion to the occurrence. My wife executed one oil
painting in her lifetime, and I proudly had it framed and hung it on the wall. It
is a still-life of a brown teapot, an orange, and two pears on a table done in
the primitive style. There is nothing exceptional about it, except that she is
the one who painted it.
Yesterday
as I walked past the painting, it reached out and caught my eye, demanded
attention. I stopped and examined it—really
examined it—for the first time in quite a while. For a moment, it was as if I suffered
my loss anew after all this time. It became fresh and pressing and depressing all out of proportion to the time.
And I mourned her again.
I
have no idea why that happened at that particular time for that specific
reason, but perhaps the loss of my younger brother to lung cancer in December
had something to do with it. He and his wife had a particularly close and
loving relationship, so his widow is having a difficult time coping with her
loss. I text her regularly to share my walk down this path with her and to try
to assure her it becomes more manageable as time goes by. Perhaps that’s why I
got pole-axed by a painting from the past.
Thanks
for indulging me.
*****
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The
next book in the BJ Vinson Mystery Series, The Lovely Pines is scheduled for
release on August 28 of this year.
See
you next week.
Don
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