This is the last post for Peggy's Journey. The first was in June, 2009, When she was about to undergo major surgery for the disease that would ultimately end her life. When I held Peg's ashes in my hands and felt them fall to the ground, I had a deep sense that our time with her on this earth had finally come to a close...and fittingly, that the blog needed to come to a close as well. It's a new life for me, and for Zoë. Peggy's journey is out in the universe (or several universes) where she's truly free. And we have the rest of our lives- here- to create in new and unpredictable ways.
Peggy is gone from this earth. Our family life as we knew it is irrevocably changed. But Zoë and I are still alive, and life in the larger sense is filled with infinite possibilities.
It's been healing for me to share this journey with you. I'd like to
close it with a quote from Joseph Campbell, someone who inspired Peg,
and inspires me still:
“If you follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that
has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you
ought to be living is the one you are living. Follow your bliss and
don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were
going to be.”
Namaste.
