The Gilmerites....in memory of Gilmer Part 4
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[QUOTE=Purplrks3647;7569886]Saw this online and thought I would share.....
(((Gilmer))) Hope you get to spend lots of time at the beach
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] I remember Kathy posted a pic of her on the beach when she went for one of her last trips away. I can see her big happy grin. God she was a treasure. It fills my heart thinking of what gifts she gave to others, just by being her wonderful self. ❤️
(((Gilmer))) Hope you get to spend lots of time at the beach
[/QUOTE] I remember Kathy posted a pic of her on the beach when she went for one of her last trips away. I can see her big happy grin. God she was a treasure. It fills my heart thinking of what gifts she gave to others, just by being her wonderful self. ❤️
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How are the Gilmerites? Keeping well through these strange times we’re in I hope? 
If it’s ok I’d like to show part of an old post of our Kathy.
I just read a short and lovely book called Tuesdays With Morrie. An elderly college professor who is dying of ALS gets weaker and more corpse-like every day—yet he remains cheerful, kind, gracious, and loving.
His former student is bewildered: how on earth can he stay so serene when his body is being ravaged? Does he not suffer? Is he not grief-stricken by the loss of his vitality?
Morrie’s response hit me like a lightning bolt.
He says, “Sometimes in the mornings...That’s when I mourn. I feel around my body, I move my fingers and hands...and I mourn what I’ve lost...But then I stop mourning.”
“Just like that?”
“I give myself a good cry if I need it. But then I concentrate on all the good things still in my life...I don’t allow myself any more self-pity than that. A little each morning, a few tears, and that’s all.”
You don’t have to deny all grieving—just keep it within bounds by putting a reasonable limit on it! You can allow yourself to experience it as you need to—but relegate it to just a few minutes a day.
Tame it and rein it in
If it’s ok I’d like to show part of an old post of our Kathy.
I just read a short and lovely book called Tuesdays With Morrie. An elderly college professor who is dying of ALS gets weaker and more corpse-like every day—yet he remains cheerful, kind, gracious, and loving.
His former student is bewildered: how on earth can he stay so serene when his body is being ravaged? Does he not suffer? Is he not grief-stricken by the loss of his vitality?
Morrie’s response hit me like a lightning bolt.
He says, “Sometimes in the mornings...That’s when I mourn. I feel around my body, I move my fingers and hands...and I mourn what I’ve lost...But then I stop mourning.”
“Just like that?”
“I give myself a good cry if I need it. But then I concentrate on all the good things still in my life...I don’t allow myself any more self-pity than that. A little each morning, a few tears, and that’s all.”
You don’t have to deny all grieving—just keep it within bounds by putting a reasonable limit on it! You can allow yourself to experience it as you need to—but relegate it to just a few minutes a day.
Tame it and rein it in
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Originally Posted by Purplrks3647 
Hey Mags 
I heard Gilmer's song on the radio the other day..... "Get the Party Started" by P!nk
I heard Gilmer's song on the radio the other day..... "Get the Party Started" by P!nk
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I keep hearing Kathy taIking to us. Saying: see, it was just a year, and you aII got through it and now you can get out there and appreciate Iife Iike never before!!!
And Iove and prayers to aII of the famiIies who Iost someone to covid. ❤️
And Iove and prayers to aII of the famiIies who Iost someone to covid. ❤️
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