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Kris Radish QUOTES

Kris Radish QUOTES

1 " For if people could see- if women especially could see- what is real and true and how the elegant possession of what is in each of our individual hearts is what matters more than anything. "

― Kris Radish , Annie Freeman's Fabulous Traveling Funeral

2 " Family does not mean people with the same last name or the same DNA. It means people who care about you, who you trust, who you care about--people you can count on. "

― Kris Radish , Annie Freeman's Fabulous Traveling Funeral

3 " I think sometimes I think too damn much. I worry about this and that and everything else and then I wake up and four more years have slipped right out the back door. "

― Kris Radish , Annie Freeman's Fabulous Traveling Funeral

4 " The grieving, she knows, never ends, and all that remains is the miracle of love. And she holds onto that miracle as if to save her life. "

― Kris Radish , Annie Freeman's Fabulous Traveling Funeral

5 " She knows she will remember these last moments with her Mother every single day for the rest of her own life. "

― Kris Radish , Annie Freeman's Fabulous Traveling Funeral

6 " Worry and life have kept her thin- you can stay thin lifting sick and dying people, driving to the hospital, and planning funerals. "

― Kris Radish , Annie Freeman's Fabulous Traveling Funeral

7 " There has to be a moment when you choose happiness, when you stand up, raise your face towards the sun, and just grab joy and put it in a place where no one can ever take it away from you. "

― Kris Radish , The Shortest Distance Between Two Women

8 " Not going back is fine.
Not going back but occasionally visiting might be best.
Not going back but remembering so you don’t see the same view twice.
Not going back so you can turn a new page, write a new chapter, develop an entire new list.
Not going back so you can stretch and grow and see yourself in a light that you never knew existed.
Not going back so that you can fly. Fly. "

― Kris Radish , The Sunday List of Dreams

9 " Sisters-the ones we share last names with and the ones we choose-are the lining of every woman's soul. "

― Kris Radish , The Shortest Distance Between Two Women

10 " Death...does this to people. It slaps the living upside the head and it makes us ponder and exchange events and feelings that might stay hidden. "

― Kris Radish , Annie Freeman's Fabulous Traveling Funeral

11 " Worry can bring you down to nothing and make you doubt everything you know about yourself. "

― Kris Radish , Tuesday Night Miracles

12 " Once," Balinda begins softly, "when I was in the emergency room with my mother they brought in a murderer who had been shot and was dying, right there in front of us. I watched as the nurse touched his face and reassured him and I could not believe they were being so nice to him."

"What happened?" Jill asked.

"My mother rose up, took my arm, gripped it as if she was a weight lifter and said, 'he was a beautiful baby once and his mother loved him'. "

― Kris Radish , Annie Freeman's Fabulous Traveling Funeral

13 " But sometimes there is absolutely nothing like a damn, shit, or hell to get your point across "

― Kris Radish

14 " ...believing in the magic of life, the power of hope, the cosmic sanity of chance and change, and the unmistakable power of love. "

― Kris Radish , Annie Freeman's Fabulous Traveling Funeral

15 " Think of all the fabulous things that have happened in the world because someone has just done it-you know, just jumped off the cliff and worried about the dangers when it's all over. "

― Kris Radish

16 " There are so many things to grieve....All the dogs & cats & birds & snakes we have loved & lost, & old lovers, but what else? ... it took me forever to see that one of them was my own daughter, my baby, a young woman I thought of only as a girl, a child, & there she was, suddenly a woman, & I felt this ache gnaw at me as if I hadn't eaten in a year. ... I stood there watching my daughter gesture & move & laugh with the grace of a grown-up, & I just started crying like a baby. It wasn't unlike the same type of sorrow we all feel when we realize something we once had that was very precious is not longer there. That it is forever lost, changed, deceased. Like a baby, gone, except in your memory. ... My own daughter is now a woman. I get it. Another passage, another form of loss, another reason to grieve, another part of this life process. "

― Kris Radish , Annie Freeman's Fabulous Traveling Funeral

17 " :Of course there are many ways to celebrate death & life, & of course as they bounce into their 40's & 50's & 60's, the fingers of time grow a bit longer, & yet ... & yet life doesn't stop. Life doesn't stop or wait even if you do. Pause if you must... but then catch up fast. Run with the wind. Slide down the hill tumbling head first, so that you can fall into the hands of now. Today. Everyday. Every minute. Every second. Of course it's also ok to hold onto your grief, & ride it as if your own life depended on it through a sea of rough waters, waves as high as heaven, through the thunderous barrage of emotions that are the very heart of loss. Any loss. Love. Death. Job. A slice of a segment of your life that made up the whole. Of course... the whole damn world needs to have more fun. A hellofa lot more fun. "

― Kris Radish , Annie Freeman's Fabulous Traveling Funeral

18 " This dying & grief stuff knows no boundaries. It doesn't matter if the pain of loss is for a baby, an elderly parent, someone who drops dead at 30, the sorrow & grief doesn't change because of age. "

― Kris Radish , Annie Freeman's Fabulous Traveling Funeral

19 " Not only are there many ways to grieve, but showing sorrow, reaching out, being honest about your loss is as important as anything. ... Go kiss someone, go swim naked, go quit the job you hate, go celebrate your own life before it's over. Go. Do something with gusto & gratitude & with a laugh at the back of your throat, a laugh that never ends. "

― Kris Radish , Annie Freeman's Fabulous Traveling Funeral

20 " Her Mother's obituary... her last physical link to the woman who helped for the soul of who she was to become, who she remains, who she will always be. She has read the obituary so many times that it looks as if the piece of paper has been through the wash a dozen times. She wonders if she will ever stop reading it. She holds it, as she held her Mother, finally held her Mother once she crossed over the threshold of adulthood herself, & realized the power of a Mother's love for a child. The sacrifices her Mother made that she never appreciated, & that great gift of patience that can only be learned by becoming a mother. "

― Kris Radish , Annie Freeman's Fabulous Traveling Funeral