It feels weird when people that I knew, people who came up on my social media accounts and pages, are gone. My mind’s still having a difficult time wrapping around the fact that a friend of mine that I knew for so long passed away. I suppose it’s the finality of it that my brain is having trouble with, as I try to avoid thinking about death or talking about it whenever possible. It doesn’t feel right referring to someone that I’d known since my youngest son was an infant in the past tense, but I’ve been telling my brain to just do it.

It feels the weirdest knowing that her LiveJournal, where she blogged until 2017, is now in the past tense.