Grief has changed me and I wonder what he would think about my life now. No one promised me that that the pain would be better by now, but I somehow thought that "after a couple of years" I would be more at peace with it, that the pain would have dulled. It has not and I still think of him very often throughout the day. I don't know if I will ever miss him less, but I do know that I was lucky to have him. I pay tribute to his memory with an ongoing project I call Watching. I took this photo when a childhood friend and I took a snack break behind the falls on the Triple Falls Hike in the Columbia River Gorge in July of this year. I knew that this grotto would be the kind of spot my dad would have truly enjoyed exploring. He was an adventurous and curious soul and that spirit inspires the art that I make. For more click the Watching http://meganmcgrorty.weebly.com/watching.html tab.
I have been having very vivid dreams of my father. I think my subconscious was alerting me to the date. On August 15th it will be two years since I lost him. Before he died I did not understand the significance of death anniversaries, but now I find it impossible to ignore this and other dates throughout the year that were important to him.
Grief has changed me and I wonder what he would think about my life now. No one promised me that that the pain would be better by now, but I somehow thought that "after a couple of years" I would be more at peace with it, that the pain would have dulled. It has not and I still think of him very often throughout the day. I don't know if I will ever miss him less, but I do know that I was lucky to have him. I pay tribute to his memory with an ongoing project I call Watching. I took this photo when a childhood friend and I took a snack break behind the falls on the Triple Falls Hike in the Columbia River Gorge in July of this year. I knew that this grotto would be the kind of spot my dad would have truly enjoyed exploring. He was an adventurous and curious soul and that spirit inspires the art that I make. For more click the Watching http://meganmcgrorty.weebly.com/watching.html tab.
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