{"id":42537,"date":"2023-10-19T16:34:18","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T20:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mominthecity.com\/?p=42537"},"modified":"2023-10-19T16:34:19","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T20:34:19","slug":"a-time-to-grieve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mominthecity.com\/a-time-to-grieve\/","title":{"rendered":"A Time to Grieve"},"content":{"rendered":"<body>\n<p>These last few months have been a blur. The health of my husband Reggie\u2019s dad took a drastic turn for the worse. After a couple of weeks in the hospital and a few days of in-home hospice, Mr. Coleman passed away on September 25th.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mominthecity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/382241826_10229118624684011_8443601170305120014_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-42538\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mominthecity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/382241826_10229118624684011_8443601170305120014_n.jpg 480w, https:\/\/mominthecity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/382241826_10229118624684011_8443601170305120014_n-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Every time that a loved one passes away, it has a different impact. (I wrote about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mominthecity.com\/never-forget\/\">Reggie\u2019s mom passing away <\/a>eight years ago.) Mr. Coleman\u2019s passing was bittersweet as I shared in a Facebook post a couple of days after his passing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fpermalink.php%3Fstory_fbid%3Dpfbid023VHbfdYDf3DB2KbcKcsgHomc5azuJU3A4nQqPuGVgvUYkwWK8atLwc4qPRMibJ8cl%26id%3D1045992371&amp;show_text=true&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"709\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\"><\/iframe><\/center>\n\n\n\n<p>This time has been challenging but it reminded me of a quote from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mominthecity.com\/inside-out-movie-review-the-unintentional-arrogance-of-joy\/\">The Unintentional Arrogance of Joy<\/a> post that I wrote back in 2015:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Ultimately, Joy learned that without Sadness, people never get to experience comfort and encouragement from others.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mominthecity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/382235885_10229118624444005_3308246856217882276_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-42539\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mominthecity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/382235885_10229118624444005_3308246856217882276_n.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mominthecity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/382235885_10229118624444005_3308246856217882276_n-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>My family has been so grateful for the many ways that friends and other family members have reached out to help us during this challenging time. Our cups of encouragement have overflowed by weeks of meals, constant prayers, an overflow of funeral attendees (on one of those super rainy New York Saturdays that we have recently experienced) and much more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Life is (still) good\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mominthecity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/reggie-kim-and-mr.-c-576x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-42540\" style=\"object-fit:cover\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mominthecity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/reggie-kim-and-mr.-c-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/mominthecity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/reggie-kim-and-mr.-c-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/mominthecity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/reggie-kim-and-mr.-c-768x1365.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mominthecity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/reggie-kim-and-mr.-c-864x1536.jpg 864w, https:\/\/mominthecity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/reggie-kim-and-mr.-c.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These last few months have been a blur. 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After a couple of weeks in the hospital and a few days of in-home hospice, Mr. Coleman passed &#8230; <a title=\"A Time to Grieve\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/mominthecity.com\/a-time-to-grieve\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about A Time to Grieve\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42539,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2676],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-personal-musings"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v20.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>A Time to Grieve<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Reflections on the passig of my husband&#039;s dad\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, 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