I haven’t blogged in almost 2 months.
That’s because the beginning of the summer started rough. I won’t go into detail, mostly because I feel like this is partly not my story to tell. But after my stepfather passed away (expectedly), my mother in law passed away a few weeks later (unexpectedly).
It was a very difficult time for us. Very, very difficult. She was a wonderful woman and the situation left me with a deep sense of unfairness.
While we went through grief, I stepped back from blogging, from everything.
That was the beginning of summer.
I decided to step back from any unnecessary activities, so I’ve been quiet, spending time at home. Spending time with family.
Thinking.
Things have settled down a bit. My family is doing well. My husband, my son, and myself… we’re healthy and well. We’re blessed.
If there could be a word to represent the second half of the summer, I suppose it wouldn’t be clarity. It would be acceptance.
It has been a summer of acceptance for me:
- accepting that some people in my old family are never going to change.
- accepting everything that happened, the funerals attended and unattended.
- accepting my age, my limitations.
- accepting God’s sovereignty.
- accepting my life, fully, as-is.
And acceptance is such a beautiful thing.
Acceptance is right there with surrender, and that is where I find myself today.
So I’m blogging again.
For now, I don’t have the comments open on my blog. It just feels rude to have my comments open when I know I won’t have time to reply, and I also don’t have time to read other blogs.
I’m blogging, but I’m also focusing on life, on rebuilding something essential that I feel I lost at that rough start of summer.
And I’m focusing on transitioning to a more positive way of blogging ~ because frankly, I think I’ve been trauma-dumping and bringing everyone down! x-[ That was not my intention when I started Dear Quiet.
I hope that your summer was much better than mine. I hope that you got to enjoy the warmer weather, the relaxation, and the joy that can be summer.
I hope you’re doing well :-]
Take care,
Dear Quiet
signal.log: 7.14.2026
initiating _ surrender/mode
engaging: positivity.transformation