by Gigi Hafner | Oct 18, 2019 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments
There will be no remembrance of my love’s death four years ago today with words of regret and unanswerable questions; instead I will honor his memory with that which he treasured as the best we could hope and do for our children and ourselves. He believed...
by Gigi Hafner | Sep 5, 2019 | Uncategorized | 2 Comments
Today you would have been 77 and perhaps we would be walking along a densely flowered path, approaching the sea. I do not view birthdays as a time for looking back but as a barometer of what may come. You preferred no reminders, no cards, no celebrations and no...
by Gigi Hafner | Oct 16, 2018 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments
“That’s what they mean by the womb of time: the agony and the despair of spreading bones, the hard girdle in which lie the outraged entrails of events.” ― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying It was three years ago that I was told you had hanged yourself....
by Gigi Hafner | Sep 5, 2018 | Uncategorized | 1 Comment
Your birthdays were never an important event that you reveled in celebrating. It was for the young, I believe you thought. Perhaps it marked another year of triumph, for you had survived another year but not lived as you hoped. So this is not a happy...
by Gigi Hafner | Jun 6, 2018 | Uncategorized | 1 Comment
It’s the first time I have cried in months. It could be the music playing as I gaze at your pictures. What do I do with you, now that I’m moving. What of you should I leave behind and what should I box up and carry along this new journey I am about to take. ...
by Gigi Hafner | Oct 16, 2017 | Uncategorized | 3 Comments
It was two years ago today that my brother-in-law, Farid, sent me a text message that my husband had hanged himself. He had already reached my sister and told her the news upon which she immediately responded by telling my brother-in-law that I was at school...
