A Different Kind of Journey
Today's journal entry is unlike anything posted here before and, hopefully, nothing like this will ever be posted here again. Today's entry is about traveling on a road that leads to a dark place that those of us that are parents hope never to travel. How does one breathe when one's child has left this world before one? How does one get through the day when that day's to do list includes planning a memorial service for one's only daughter? How can the soul sister/friend of the one facing these monstrous circumstances best love on and serve her? Kathi and I have traveled many places together, but this road is one of heartbreak, tragedy and great love. Kathi's beautiful and talented daughter, Ridley Victoria Morgan, passed away in her apartment in Chicago this past week. She was an aspiring singer/songwriter and performer who had dreams of making it big in the music industry. She worked very hard over the past several years to make those dreams come true d...