Happy Birthday Gregory

July 4 is my Gregory's birthday. He was born in 1948. He passed on October 4, 2015. He would have been 70 years old today. Great love means great grief. One never stops grieving the loss, one just uses the love to grow larger than the grief and learns how to carry the love and grief along with himself. On special days, like holidays and birthdays and death days, one shrinks back to the size one was when the grief struck. But only for a short time, then one begins to grow larger again and more easily carries the love and grief hand in hand, heart in heart, the memory of memories.