tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2899447029099688486.post7476069154037347461..comments2024-03-26T05:20:10.232-04:00Comments on Between the By-Road and the Main Road: #SOL17: 4:30 PMMary Ann Reillyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14349201167828984708noreply@blogger.comBlogger36125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2899447029099688486.post-57141442837844962182017-04-12T10:21:18.474-04:002017-04-12T10:21:18.474-04:00Thank you so much. Glad you found a connection.Thank you so much. Glad you found a connection.Mary Ann Reillyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14349201167828984708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2899447029099688486.post-78481588919906772412017-03-08T12:06:33.944-05:002017-03-08T12:06:33.944-05:00Leanna, thank you so much for the words you write ...Leanna, thank you so much for the words you write here. I wrote so often out of need that it still surprises me that anyone else reads what I am writing and more so--connects with it. I do think Rob would be proud of me too. Thank you for your words.Mary Ann Reillyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14349201167828984708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2899447029099688486.post-59572295079413742172017-03-07T23:18:05.078-05:002017-03-07T23:18:05.078-05:00Mary Ann, as always, your writing resonates strong...Mary Ann, as always, your writing resonates strongly with me. I always take something meaningful away from your beautiful words. I know I don't know you well, but I feel as though I have been shadowing you on this journey -- this struggle to be whole when you feel as though the best part of you has been rent; and I feel like it has prepared me for the big losses I know I have yet to face inLeanna Lomanskinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2899447029099688486.post-2703624272655462882017-03-07T21:54:35.254-05:002017-03-07T21:54:35.254-05:00Thank you Amy. Thank you Amy. Mary Ann Reillyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14349201167828984708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2899447029099688486.post-81607893264034049752017-03-07T21:54:25.442-05:002017-03-07T21:54:25.442-05:00I never expected to be here. But I am. I see what...I never expected to be here. But I am. I see what I write as a way to heal and a way to honor my husband. Thank you Glenda:)Mary Ann Reillyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14349201167828984708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2899447029099688486.post-83858702111594094622017-03-07T21:53:16.041-05:002017-03-07T21:53:16.041-05:00Thank you Anita. Appreciate the prayers.Thank you Anita. Appreciate the prayers.Mary Ann Reillyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14349201167828984708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2899447029099688486.post-80576812005410154862017-03-07T21:52:47.235-05:002017-03-07T21:52:47.235-05:00His words are with me. Someday I will be brave en...His words are with me. Someday I will be brave enough and healed enough to read his notebooks. Mary Ann Reillyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14349201167828984708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2899447029099688486.post-72467667116270601422017-03-07T20:54:17.575-05:002017-03-07T20:54:17.575-05:00You are so brave and so strong. There are tears in...You are so brave and so strong. There are tears in my eyes. Thank you for sharing. ~AmyAmy Warntzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07449813200426432125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2899447029099688486.post-55439714813776380232017-03-07T19:16:55.186-05:002017-03-07T19:16:55.186-05:00This and other posts you have written about Rob te...This and other posts you have written about Rob teach me, and I'm sure others, much about living and dying. I think about death often. Not out of a sense of morbidity but out of a deep knowledge of how temporal life is. Thank you, Mary Ann, for sharing this personal journey and for living and writing w/ brilliance that lights the way for myself and others. Glenda Funkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07020745976555044975noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2899447029099688486.post-53555496700936167682017-03-07T18:36:39.299-05:002017-03-07T18:36:39.299-05:00I'm sure this was a hard post to write....but ...I'm sure this was a hard post to write....but his words...and now your words are vitally important for us all.....LIVE BRILLIANTLY ...what great advice for all of us! Thoughts and prayers on this day.drferreriblogspot.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08800953133789773280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2899447029099688486.post-36541021009962566232017-03-07T13:12:43.454-05:002017-03-07T13:12:43.454-05:00You have been living and writing brilliantly, Mary...You have been living and writing brilliantly, Mary Ann. Rob's words and spirit are very much with you still.Tarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13626451110946889157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2899447029099688486.post-38206773353901541892017-03-07T12:20:40.859-05:002017-03-07T12:20:40.859-05:00I hope I am, Katie. I do hope so.I hope I am, Katie. I do hope so.Mary Ann Reillyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14349201167828984708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2899447029099688486.post-75527013023286037412017-03-07T12:18:40.480-05:002017-03-07T12:18:40.480-05:00Mary Ann, what a beautiful legacy he gifted you wi...Mary Ann, what a beautiful legacy he gifted you with...be the poem. It sounds like you are choosing just that.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01557239522124619151noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2899447029099688486.post-82430917201046163942017-03-07T12:18:36.728-05:002017-03-07T12:18:36.728-05:00Mary Ann, what a beautiful legacy he gifted you wi...Mary Ann, what a beautiful legacy he gifted you with...be the poem. It sounds like you are choosing just that.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01557239522124619151noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2899447029099688486.post-62119333268327283312017-03-07T11:59:58.507-05:002017-03-07T11:59:58.507-05:00Yes. I do. I am the richer for it.Yes. I do. I am the richer for it.Mary Ann Reillyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14349201167828984708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2899447029099688486.post-72298424995341412562017-03-07T11:59:43.242-05:002017-03-07T11:59:43.242-05:00I try. Someday I will find the courage to read wha...I try. Someday I will find the courage to read what he has written in those many notebooks he kept. Not today. But someday.Mary Ann Reillyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14349201167828984708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2899447029099688486.post-37896411413992489852017-03-07T11:58:57.987-05:002017-03-07T11:58:57.987-05:00Thank you Margaret. I hadn't thought of how m...Thank you Margaret. I hadn't thought of how my words memorialize him. Thank you.Mary Ann Reillyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14349201167828984708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2899447029099688486.post-53797807405108368542017-03-07T11:58:11.126-05:002017-03-07T11:58:11.126-05:00I write as I have to. It helps as do your comment...I write as I have to. It helps as do your comments. Thank you.Mary Ann Reillyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14349201167828984708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2899447029099688486.post-23745310707111653502017-03-07T11:57:51.291-05:002017-03-07T11:57:51.291-05:00He believed in a global energy I had forgotten tha...He believed in a global energy I had forgotten that. Reading what you wrote reminded me.<br />Thanks:)Mary Ann Reillyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14349201167828984708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2899447029099688486.post-82407254664475845832017-03-07T11:57:15.691-05:002017-03-07T11:57:15.691-05:00A friend gave me a bracelet with those two words o...A friend gave me a bracelet with those two words on it. I wear it daily. Mary Ann Reillyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14349201167828984708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2899447029099688486.post-39350114440380837562017-03-07T11:56:50.219-05:002017-03-07T11:56:50.219-05:00He was a wonderful person. It is easy to write abo...He was a wonderful person. It is easy to write about hi and us and our son. Family matters so.Mary Ann Reillyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14349201167828984708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2899447029099688486.post-3669679725834781242017-03-07T11:56:10.139-05:002017-03-07T11:56:10.139-05:00Thank you so much. A day to think and remember and...Thank you so much. A day to think and remember and to get on with other things.Mary Ann Reillyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14349201167828984708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2899447029099688486.post-70661382773769833302017-03-07T11:55:41.614-05:002017-03-07T11:55:41.614-05:00I wrote out of such necessity, Carrie. I loved you...I wrote out of such necessity, Carrie. I loved your post today. You are quite the Pied Piper. Reading it brought joy.Mary Ann Reillyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14349201167828984708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2899447029099688486.post-47308680556370623382017-03-07T11:55:01.093-05:002017-03-07T11:55:01.093-05:00He was a beautiful man in so many ways. Thank you ...He was a beautiful man in so many ways. Thank you Julieanne for noticing.Mary Ann Reillyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14349201167828984708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2899447029099688486.post-67814966965583408462017-03-07T11:54:22.914-05:002017-03-07T11:54:22.914-05:00Another does. I read your post and loved the set o...Another does. I read your post and loved the set of rituals you have embodied each morning. Soothing. A necessary time out.Mary Ann Reillyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14349201167828984708noreply@blogger.com