Brittany Rebecca Helton

‘I will carry with me forever the strength my loved on bequeathed to me.’

‘It is probably better to risk saying too much than to hold back out of fear.’

“Great peace is found in little busy-ness.”

-Chaucer

‘Today I will do one “optional” thing.’

‘As I am able, I will reenter the world around me with courage and expectation.’

“I don’t believe you’re dead. How can you be deak if I still feel you? Maybe, like God, you changed into something different that I’ll have to speak to in a different way, but you are not dead to me. And never will be. Sometimes when I get tired of talking to myself I talk to you.”

– Alice Walker

‘Sometimes the veil between the living and the dead seems think, and lighter than air.’

“The main impact is just the loss, the incredible loss. The expectations just were gone. The old age that I expected is different. It just never occurred to me that she would not be in the next rocker…At the Catholic school that I went to, the motto was hic et noc, Latin for “here and now.” What they meant was you do what is necessary – here and now.”

– Cokie Roberts

‘This is the only day I have for sure. May I use it well.”

‘I am organically connected to all of my life. I am not alone!’

‘The images of my loved one will return in their own time.’

“Take rest. The field that has rested gives a beautiful crop.”

– Ovid

‘I will care for myself in honor of my life and all who have shared that life with me.’

“But I am no more I,
Nor is my house now my house.”

 – Federico Garcia Lorca