- Number the days

Back on Day 143 ...

http://imgoingtotexas.blogspot.com/2016/05/picturing-process.html

I planned to do a companion patch when I got to Day 314, thinking I would title it "You I Love."

But then it came to pass that Day 314 fell on November 9

http://imgoingtotexas.blogspot.com/2016/11/now-what.html

and a whole new set of possible 314s came to mind:

     Why I hurt

          Can I heal?

               Him I fear

In the end, I decided on "How I hope" ...

So this, then, is what I do ...

A numbering of days ...

October 14

http://imgoingtotexas.blogspot.com/2016/10/almost-week.html

October 15

http://imgoingtotexas.blogspot.com/2016/10/change-is-in-air.html

and October 16

http://imgoingtotexas.blogspot.com/2016/10/long-light.html

Because ultimately what I chose to remember was not whatever miserable news was current on each of those days, but the simple joys they gave me:

G's gentle voice whispering "Hi bird"

J's exultant smile as he learned to ride his new bicycle

The golden light of the setting sun caught in the branches of a tree