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Not everything has to have a silver lining.

~ Kirk Boettcher

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So, I'm writing this on my brother's birthday in 2024. He said this to me a couple of weeks ago. I was on a drive and pulled over into a cemetery to talk when he called me. It was a logical place to stop since there isn't a lot of traffic in cemeteries, and we were talking about death and impending death.

2024 was a really tough year for a lot of reasons, but I'll share one theme of the year - the death of mothers. Leslie, Kirk & I, Leslie's brother-in-law, and my brother-in-law all lost our moms in 2024. 

I'm scheduling this post for a year from today: Kirk's birthday in 2025. And here is what I predict, 2025 will be easier. It will be difficult in different ways, but it won't be as hard as this year has been. I also predict none of us will lose our moms in 2025.