<p>Things are getting better. Slowly at times, but they are.</p>
<p>It&#39;s time to move on. To get going. As much as I&#39;ve felt like moping around, my children need me. Opportunities have come to do what I love. I must do them.</p>
<p>It&#39;s easy for me to say this, because the grief -- while it still hits me at surprising times -- it gets a little lighter every day.</p>
<p>What has helped me has been all the people that surround me. That includes you.</p>
<p>So thank you.</p>
<p>Another thing that has helped me has been writing.</p>
<p>It has.</p>
<p>But one of the many things I have learned in this is that out of all the things my father left behind, it is his <em>handwritten</em> words that have meant the most.</p>
<p>He didn&#39;t have a blog, of course. But he left behind his computers, lots of emails, a phone. You know, the things we all use every day. A digital trail.</p>
<p>But there are precious few scraps of paper with his handwriting. It is these that I treasure.</p>
<p>I was worried about looking at his clothes. The shoes we bought together exactly a month ago. I worried about holding his glasses, about sitting in his car, slipping his rings on my fingers. I did all these things. And I felt precious little.</p>
<p>The truth is that the things he left behind haven&#39;t affected me much.</p>
<p>But the most intimate and most precious things I have found are the words written with his own hand.</p>
<p>It has got me thinking.</p>
<p>I am starting to journal again. On paper. With ink.</p>
<p>The blog? It&#39;s not going anywhere. It has its place. I love sharing my words with the world. I will continue with my 10/10/10 project and continue to share it with you all. I will continue to write about the little everyday details that inspired this blog in the first place.</p>
<p>Blogs/Facebook/Email? They are great to communicate. I&#39;m not quitting them either. After all, they brought me all your words as quickly and efficiently as I needed them.</p>
<p>But I need for some of my words to be tangible. To last. To not be at the mercy of technology.</p>
<p>I am going back to journaling.</p>
<p>Nothing beats pen and paper.</p>
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