I found this post appropriate as I head into my 3rd new year since Richard’s death:

“When someone who we love dies, the entire landscape of our life changes. We grieve, not only the person, but their place in our lives and in our hopes and dreams. Their absence changes everything about what we see and what the future looks like.

Yet, their love still remains steadily underneath the pain of it all. Their love plays a role in our hopes and dreams and futures. Soft and steady. Persevering. Continuing. Still there. Still there..

And we take that love with us into each new day and each new year in whatever way we can. And we bring them with us. And we know in our hearts that their love plays just as big of a role now as it did before. Because when we love deeply, we love forever. ❤️”