Once in a while, I find myself walking along through life doing just fine. And then something happens and bam, I'm struck back down on my knees! Just like that.
A couple of days ago that happened to me. I was just going along with my day, with my life and this song started playing, "Gracie" by Ben Folds. I'd never heard it before, and just like that, I was there with tears streaming down my face, completely taken by surprise, off-guard and what was lost was right there in front of me. A life with Grace. A baby, a toddler, a child, all of those years just wiped away and the song, so haunting, so lovely, so simple just undid me.
Two days later, I think, the puffiness in my eyes is decreasing, and I am starting to return to this world again but not without this song playing in my head over and over again.
"You can't fool me, I saw you when you came out....and there is always gonna be a part of me nobody else is gonna see but you and me..."
And sometimes you just have to be prepared for when life catches you off guard.
17 September 2008
Gracie girl....
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Sara said you had heard it on my blog. I figured you had heard the song before. sorry it made you cry so hard, but a hard cry can be good for you. It reminds me too, of all the things I will miss with Olivia too.
by the way, Virginia did an EXCELLENT job on the article. She read it to me over the phone as I sat in my husbands CricKet store, and I just sobbed. That had to look a little wierd to people. She couldn't have said it nay better. I hope that the whold thing gets MISS and Forget Me Not some attention.
I missed having you at the baby shower last night.
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