Friday, September 30, 2011

An important day I choose to remember this year

In 2005 September 30th was a beautiful day, better than even today. It was bright and mild with temperatures just where you would expect for the last day of September. As I recall it didn’t turn grey. The sky was a deep blue filled with high, heavy clouds that just amplified the brightness of the day as they reflected the sun and shone a bright white. The clouds’ seeming luminescence added to the depth of the blue of the sky.

It was gorgeous and it was the day I got out of the hospital.

I can remember that moment very clearly – the moment as we drove away from the hospital. I had been unconscious for most of my time in the hospital but I knew, my mind and my body knew, that I had been there for a long time. Now I was finally out and I was going home.

In a year when I have been avoiding those anniversaries, that is a day worth remembering.