For My Mother

LJ Black
4 min readJan 3, 2022

On Her 1st Heavenly Birthday

Photo by April Pethybridge on Unsplash

This is our first birthday without you. It’s been just a few months since we last spoke in person.

I try to not think about our last few days together — how I held it together so I could make decisions to prolong your comfort and our selfish need to keep you close for just one more day, one more hour, one more minute. As the time ticked away, I tried not to note every detail; how you…

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LJ Black

Wife. Mother to an autistic son and an adopted daughter. Alpha female to my pack of dogs & lover of nature. Eagerly searching for that perfect Prosecco.