Reflections...

Last week four police officers were killed in Oakland. It's a terrible tragedy and thousands of people are saddened by it and are coming out to fill at least one stadium for their memorial service today. I really feel for their families, especially their kids. Although we all have to go someday, going this way is pretty awful.

It got me thinking about my friend that was killed almost a year ago. I became really sad while I was thinking and couldn't believe that he's been gone for a year already. My eyes wandered out the window and all of a sudden I saw two butterflies flitting around and landed on the ground. This is slightly unusual and since the weather has warmed up I haven't seen any here yet. I went outside and looked up in the trees and saw at least ten of them weaving in and out of the branches. I got a warm feeling that I can't really describe as I was watching the butterflies and realized that it could very well have been a sign from him letting me know he was okay. We miss him a lot and DH hasn't been the same since he left us.