I haven’t talked about this publicly yet, but we lost my brother recently. He was diagnosed with stage four colorectal cancer about 13 months before he died. He had the best treatment, but it wasn’t enough.
Please, get your colonoscopies on schedule!
Grief, I’ve learned, is really love. It’s all the love you want to give but cannot give. The more you loved someone, the more you grieve. All of that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes and in that part of your chest that gets empty and hollow feeling. The happiness of love turns to sadness when unspent. Grief is just love with no place to go.
― Jamie Anderson
The pics are of us in early 1974.
We hadn’t been close in years, and we didn’t always get along (what siblings do?), but he was still my little brother. There is a hole in my heart now.