Remembering a backwards glance that could simultaneously hold so little and yet so very much. #GoodbyeMom #GoodbyeDad #StillSayingGoodbye

Photo: Leaving my hometown in the rearview mirror after a weekend visit for my mother's funeral. Photo taken October 27, 2017.

The old wooden swing in Mom's backyard on a frosty morning, November 2016.

#GoodbyeMom #StillSayingGoodbye 8/11/1946 - 10/19/2017.

I have a memory of a long ago conversation with my cousin. Who knows how accurate this memory is. And who knows how old my cousin and I were at the time -- definitely older than, say, six, but maybe still under 11 or 12...