My Mind is Spinning

Another trip in one day to McCallie to attend a memorial service for Joe's friend. We sat in the back, keeping an escape route close at hand, keeping our heads down and trying hard to keep ourselves together. Then Gus's Mom approached the podium to speak, her voice cracked and I was snapped back to January 2010. I wanted to sprint from the back of the chapel and hold her tight, hold her up, give her support to finish the words that were so important to her. I held my breath through each tearful word saying in my head "finish because it is so important." Georgia finished with grace and just the right words that only a mom could say.