Day 217: The Honeymoon Revisited

I'm part of a 30-day grief writing course.  Today's writing is in response to a prompt.

October 3, 2014

For this bit of writing, we were asked to select something we've already written and do a cut-and-paste of that piece. I did a similar exercise and published it in a post titled "Rewriting the Story" and a surprisingly darker one the next day with "Another Cut and Paste."

For this one, I chose a piece from Day 105. When cutting up words and piecing them back together, there's a bit of a trust process that something cohesive will end up coming out of that mess. And it is a mess at first:

The original piece is about the pain of seeing the full moon each and every month, with its supremely clear reminders of times with Gareth. (Re-read the original here.) 

It took several hours of moving the bits and pieces like a puzzle with no clear shape before something began to show up. And what did was interesting to me- kind of a before, during, and after of the process of the grief softening and the moon becoming not only bearable to look at again, but a welcomed reminder.

I'll post the finished pieces in sections below. There were three.

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