My mother passed away yesterday. She was a very positive person, and found lots of ways to find good in a person or a situation. With that in mind, Im just going to throw this out there. Not so much in honor of her, but more for yourself and the world...post positive things today. Its fine if you dont like the President, a Majority or Minority leader, a Senator or Congressman, the fella who blithely and blindly cut you off in traffic...but just for today, rather than post how bad, dumb, misguided or ill-informed...post something positive about someone or something else instead. While I am gutted that my mom is gone, Im going to look at the positives. I actually lived here with her for a bit over a month while I shot for Disney. How many 50-year-olds get a chance to do that? I have a wife and sons who allowed that to happen. My mom recently was reunited with her long-lost daughter, who found us after some amazing detective work, and drove back to Kansas City to spend some time with friends as well as being able to meet Pamela and her granddaughter Talia. How many of us have been able to take advantage of such an awesome opportunity, and to have it go really well? On that same trip, she was able to reconnect with Leslie and Miranda after a time when communication was somewhat...awkward, maybe? Difficult, maybe? Im not quite sure how to best explain it, but those doors were reopened to a result that meant a great deal to her. How many of us have not had those doors reopened, but instead have always looked at a situation and said what if? My mom and my younger sister have at times had a difficult relationship, but that to was the strongest and best it had been in many years. My wife and I had often talked about how we wished that our sons Quentin and Ethan could spend some one-on-one time with her. Tina and the boys came down while I was working for Disney, and the boys were able to spend several days with her while I worked. So many of us, after the loss of a loved one, often have regrets about the time we wished we could have spent, but Mom & the boys got several days of hanging-with-Grandma time that I will always be eternally grateful for. I flew down yesterday morning, hoping that I would be transitioning her this week to an inpatient rehab facility with a mind towards getting her tot he point where she could move back home. Clearly the situation went terribly wrong, but I was here when she passed, and while I wasnt in the room because the medical types were filling her room, I was there, and I spent time with her before the situation became emergent. I will forever take comfort in the fact that, in spite of her pain, she heard me, she knew I was there and who I was, and I was able to get her to calm down a bit before the situation changed. I was there. She heard me. So many never have that last chance...but I did. My soul feels shattered as I wake up today (if you can call that sleep) to the first day I have ever known of a world without my mom to brighten it, and I will, somehow, continue to look for positives rather than negatives. Thanks for everything, Mom. I love you.
Posted on: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 11:57:53 +0000
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