Belonging To Yourself When The Role Is Gone

Belonging means more than just loving. It means including.

There was a woman who had spent years woven into the fabric of her family’s life — especially during the holidays. In the kitchen at Thanksgiving with the grandkids, roasting the turkey, making cookies, soaking in their stories of school and camp. She was embedded in their lives in the way that feels permanent, until it doesn’t.

Because she had lost her …