I'm sorry for my lack of posts in July but this has been an extremely difficult month with
the death of one of my closest friends. I have always been one to post positive quotes
and appreciating each day we are blessed with, but I have had to pull from all of that to
get through the last month. It's so difficult to lose someone that you see on a weekly basis
because the emptiness is so apparent and a constant reminder she's gone.

I am starting to come out of the sadness and will be posting my beautiful weddings again.
My work has been my saving grace and I've been able to focus on my brides, their
weddings and the joy we have created. I know a lot of us deal with grief in different ways
so I thank you for your patience in my lack of postings.

What is Death?
Death is nothing at all.
I have only slipped away into the next room.
I am I and you are you.
Whatever we were to each other,
that we still are.

Call me by my old familiar name.
Speak to me in the easy way
which you always used.
Put no difference in your tone.
Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow.

Laugh as we always laughed
at the little jokes we enjoyed together.
Play, smile, think of me, pray for me.
Let my name be ever the household word
that it always was.
Let it be spoken without affect,
without the trace of a shadow on it.

Life means all that it ever meant.
It is the same that it ever was.
There is absolutely unbroken continuity.
Why should I be out of mind
because I am out of sight?

I am waiting for you,
for an interval,
somewhere very near,
just around the corner.

All is well.
~ Henry Scott Holland

I hope you will make each day special and love like there's no tomorrow,
Barbara
www.barbarasbrides.com