Still ...

Phillip's favorite Don Williams song ... In the shelter of your eyes ... keeps running through my mind.  So beautiful ... all Don Williams work is beautiful.  

But, there's one line I can't understand ... "words are only what they say ..."    What did he mean by that?   

Words are so important to me.

Phillip has been gone forty-nine days now.  Words of sympathy began coming to me even before I kissed his sweet lips for the last time ... so many words ... all offering warmth and comfort.

Two beautiful cards with hand-written messages came from Phillip's aunt, Annamae and his sister, Jan.   I will keep those two cards close to my heart forever.  

These women  are the only two remaining relatives who knew Phillip from birth.     

Both aunt and sister expressed deep gratitude that the last thirteen years of Phillip's life had been filled with the loving care he had always deserved but seldom received.  

Their words were everything to me.