" You have to let yourself feel it, and find new ways to think about what you're feeling, so you'll eventually be able to recall past events in the context of what they meant to you then...I started trying to live through the avalanche of memories that seemed to bombard me every waking minute of every single day from his [her son Liam] perspective, not mine. ...Instead of seeing through my sad, grieving lens, I started looking at life through his. How much joy he'd taken...remembering all the good and wonderful things he was. Honoring that, honoring who he was, instead of honoring my grief, my loss." Hannah, Ch. 10, pgs. 148-149 "
― Donna Kauffman , Lavender Blue (Blue Hollow Falls #3)
![Donna Kauffman quote : You have to let yourself feel it, and find new ways to think about what you're feeling, so you'll eventually be able to recall past events in the context of what they meant to you then...I started trying to live through the avalanche of memories that seemed to bombard me every waking minute of every single day from his [her son Liam] perspective, not mine. ...Instead of seeing through my sad, grieving lens, I started looking at life through his. How much joy he'd taken...remembering all the good and wonderful things he was. Honoring that, honoring who he was, instead of honoring my grief, my loss.](/image/2606614.jpg)