Nowhere But Up

[Nowhere But Up @nowgoingup]

@EydieStumpf I’m sorry to hear you are so sick and feeling so terrible. I will pray for you. Sending you a friendly healing hug...💝

["Mad Cat" Cattis @GeneralCattis]

Animals are living creatures that experience fear & pain. Leaving them to suffer & die alone in a storm is inhumane. People evacuate with both their children & pets every year. If you can’t take your pets with you, either leave them with someone else or please do not have pets.

["Mad Cat" Cattis @GeneralCattis]

Please take your animals with you when evacuating for #HurricaneMichael. Don’t make them ride out this powerful Cat 4 storm afraid and alone.
#HuricaneMichael

[Nowhere But Up @nowgoingup]

“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”—C.S. Lewis

Everyone will experience losing someone they love at some point in their life. You don’t have to deal with it alone—please reach out to family, friends, or a grief counselor.💚
#WorldMentalHealthDay
#grief #support

[Nowhere But Up @nowgoingup]

“Sometimes the hardest part isn’t letting go but rather learning to start over.”—Nicole Sobon
#grief #startingover

[Nowhere But Up @nowgoingup]

I am forever chained
To the time you left;
One clock started
When the other stopped.
But I am not chained
To him, to this.
It’s time to take your memories
And leave this place.
I’ve found some losses bind us,
While others set us free.
#NationalPoetryDay #grief #relationships

[Nowhere But Up @nowgoingup]

I finally washed one of your blankets. I knew it was time. I briefly felt as if I was washing pieces of you away, but I pushed the feeling aside and did it anyway.

The blanket is so soft now and smells so clean. You would’ve loved it.
#firststeps #stillmissyou

[Nowhere But Up @nowgoingup]

You’ve been gone one year.
I didn’t think I’d make it,
Yet here I am.
Life, as they say,
Does go on,
Even if your taste for living it
Is gone.
#SundayMorning #SundayThoughts #grief #missyou #iloveyou❤️

[Nowhere But Up @nowgoingup]

It is late and cold and in seven hours and forty minutes, you will have been gone one year. There are still no words for what I feel except the ones I say every day and will say every day for the rest of my life: I miss you.
#grief #iloveyou❤️

[Nowhere But Up @nowgoingup]

Why is it when I feel even the smallest moments of joy, I feel as if I'm being untrue to your memory?
#grief #depression

["Mad Cat" Cattis @GeneralCattis]

#ILookAtTheWorld and realize how much even small acts of kindness matter.

[Nowhere But Up @nowgoingup]

@RealisticPoetry Stop. Take a step back.
Read what you've written as objectively as possible.
If it doesn't touch you, it probably won't touch anyone else.

[Nowhere But Up @nowgoingup]

I never cease to be amazed how this can change during the day. One minute I'm okay, the next I feel as if I'm being crushed. #grief #loss https://t.co/e04doJ2QwX

[Nowhere But Up @nowgoingup]

@refugeingrief At 6 months, my grief is an uneven weight in my soul. Some days I can carry it; others, it's so heavy I can barely breathe, let alone move.

[Nowhere But Up @nowgoingup]

@refugeingrief At 6 months, my grief is an uneven weight in my soul. Some days I can carry it; others, it's so heavy I can barely breathe, let alone move.

[Nowhere But Up @nowgoingup]

Six months ago I lost you. How can time move so slowly and so quickly all at once? But no matter how it moves, it's not healing anything.💔

["Mad Cat" Cattis @GeneralCattis]

I love my new fishie
It's the best fishie yet,
But I haven't forgotten
What they took at the vet.
#NationalPoetryDay
#IStillNeedALawyer

["Mad Cat" Cattis @GeneralCattis]

The Song of Samantha:

I think that I will never see
A poem as lovely as a nap.
(Now go away so I can take one.)

#NationalPoetryDay

["Mad Cat" Cattis @GeneralCattis]

Rescue Haiku:

We are all rescues.
Love like ours cannot be bought,
Only adopted.

@MorrisAnimal

#RememberTheRescue #NationalPoetryDay

[Nowhere But Up @nowgoingup]

I still forget.
I see your face on my phone
And can't wait to get home.
Then I remember
It's not home anymore
Because you're not there.

[Nowhere But Up @nowgoingup]

When I'm numb,
I can almost forget to remember
You're not here.
But some days,
Like today,
Every cell in my body
Is on fire with your loss.