Don’t Be Sorry

[Kerry Logan]

Thank you so, for your tender thoughts, but don’t be sorry. She has left us, no doubt, but she’ll never be gone- we are too much of her for that.

At 99, you really can’t ask for more time in which to fulfill a life and she did, every year, every season, to the brim without fail. We knew her time was coming and we used it to listen to her warm chuckle and stories of hand made ice cream, biscuits, huckleberry picking, escaping floods and stampeding bulls- all while keeping up a good appearance.

I am glad her suffering was short and we were around her through the end. These are happy tears we shed.  

[bolton carley]

my sympathies, although you seem to be seeing it from the best possible light.  it's what i hope for when i go and that someone has those words for me.

[Teresa]

We couldn't hope for more.  Well done.

[Sandra Davies]

So true, and it is not a good thing that I almost said so brave, because the culture these days is to pretend death is not inevitable.   At the age of ninety-nine it is fitting and you have made the point beautifully.

[Kerry Logan]

Thanks Joey.  Death, just like any other human event and cascade of emotions doesn't just have one dominate emotion.  I don't see the need to feel sorry for this kind of death. It's like being sorry  when winter or summer to comes. 

[Joey Delgado]

Very heart felt, very true. This piece speaks to those of us lucky enough to have parents or grandparents who live into their nineties and beyond and what an experience it is to be by their side during those final days. Nicely done, Kerry.