Memories

"To love and let go, love and let go, love and let go...it's the single most important thing we can learn in this lifetime.” ― Rachel Brathen

Looking out at the snow, Haruo realized just how fleeting life was, the face that gazed back at him out of the mirror in the morning was weathered and lined with the experiences that he had gone through over the years. As he gazed at the picture of his daughter and her husband, he thought about the many times that he had held her as a child; it seemed like yesterday.

He looked over at the marriage portraits of River and his own wedding, his oldest son and Bella and now Alanna and Yasahiro. And he thought to himself that life went by so fast.

River noting the brooding expression on her husband's face enticed him to go visit his father's grave and River's mother's and then there in that little memorial alcove they built a snowman.

By morning, the snow that had fallen at night had stopped and the morning dawned crisp, cold and clear.

The day was mostly relaxing with River starting a new painting and that evening, they played a game of hoops in the snow, of course, not for very long as it was too easy to get cold.

The next morning, it started to snow heavily again.

And the clouds that covered the sky that afternoon made for a beautiful sunset.