Sunday, August 20, 2023
With social media and network news, we are easily made aware that there are tragedies happening around the world, the war in Eastern Europe, the fire storm on Maui and the wild fires in BC and countless other tragedies unfolding.
But this week we face a tragedy more close to home as Parents Catharine and Bill suffer the loss of their daughter Tiffany. Tiffany’s siblings suffer the loss of their sister and her children suffer the loss of their mother. Words of condolences are hard to find as we struggle to understand the depth of the loss. And we are saddened by the loss of a granddaughter, a niece, a cousin, a partner, a friend, a comrade in arms, a classmate, a co-worker, a neighbor or acquaintance.
It is evident that Tiffany was a part of all of our lives. She was a joy, she was funny, a delight to be with, she was an athlete, a marathon runner and roller derby girl, she was a cancer survivor, she was caring and passionate about things she loved, she was a partner, she was compassionate but could be impatient and her excitement was always infectious, she was strong minded, she was a mama bear for her daughters, she could be opinionated at times and she was a determined force to be reckoned with most of the time. She was all these things and so much more.
Tiffany had an impact on us all in different ways and we will all miss her and grieve in our own private way, as we acknowledge that grief is different for each of us.
Like the tragedies unfolding around the world we live in, it is the coming together in the aftermath of our tragedy to help each other, to hold each other up and to comfort each other with kind words and fond memories, that will truly help us go on when going on seems just to hard to imagine.
God bless all of you that were able attended and or sent condolences.
