My mother-in-law passed away on Friday. Technically she was my stepmother-in-law but in reality there was no “in-law” in the equation at all; we’re just family.
One of the more positive human beings I’ve met in my life, Barbara almost always had a smile and a great attitude about everything.
She kept a cancer diagnosis pretty much to herself, and apparently after surgery that removed part of a lung, the cancer was gone but her body had a hard time recovering from it all.
Fuck cancer.
I believe our lives as we know it right now are just a part of a much more fulfilling, robust experience. We are a flash; we are a blip on a radar screen. Gone in an instant. The goal is to make that blip shine bright and complete, then it’s time to move on to the next part of the journey.
I’m going to miss her.
