The Long, Lazy Summer (Wonders of Childhood & Beyond)

Love never dies.For some of us, the greatest love and memories that we will hold in our hearts our whole lives through are the ones we experience and share with our parents.They are part of our earliest memories and shape the lives we learn to live. They are our whole world, and when they leave us – when they pass over to the other side where pain and death can no longer touch us, we are left with an emptiness we can never again fill. To lose a parent is like losing a limb – you remember it being an essential part of your life even though it is no longer there. In many ways, you can still feel their spirits nearby, but they have moved beyond this realm where our five senses reign supreme and register into other senses of extraordinary perception we never knew we had.For Raymond, it’s simple. He spends a beautifully long, lazy summer with his mother that he will never forget. His last one with her.Nobody is promised forever. Any of us could leave this world at any moment. That being the case, what kind of memories would you leave your loved ones if you had a choice? Read more