aldi grocery store

I like to shop at Aldi for this reason and several others: they don't give you bags, you either have to buy theirs or bring your own OR reuse the packaging boxes that their food comes in (available at checkout), you have to use a quarter to get a cart (incentive to bring it back and reclaim your quarter), and it's small-- no wasted space on advertising or cosmetics. Just food.
And so the food is economically priced. It's nice to see HOW they save money. As opposed to Wal-Mart, where prices are slashed, but I wonder at what cost to their employees, providers and quality of products?

thinking about amy

I was thinking about questions that I can't answer.
I was thinking about friends who go through stuff that I can't figure out...
so naturally I was thinking about my sister, Amy, too.
I have so many, many unanswered questions. So many nagging "what ifs?" that can swirl up into a whirlwind in my mind in mere seconds.

And all I know is what IS.

Honestly, what could have been isn't worth dwelling on.

I may be starting to understand that. To understand that what happened HAPPENED. That it is over.

That answers don't bring peace.

All I know is that what is, IS.
Amy is gone. Everything is different now. It just is. I can't change it, I can't pretend it didn't happen. Sometimes I get really angry thinking about how much has changed. But I hope that that will pass eventually.

I hope I really can understand how to accept what is irreversible and find peace there.