Margo Fowkes, Author at Salt Water

The Other Side Of Silence

Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences. Isabel Allende

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Margo Fowkes in Tears

Dead tree half in the water, half out. The sky is light purple and orange with hills visible in the background. The water is dark blue and parts of it reflect the orangish color of the sky

Bearing Witness

Grief and pain are like joy and peace; they are not things we should try to snatch from each other. Glennon Doyle

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Margo Fowkes in Sea

Dan, Margo, Molly and Jimmy in Alaska standing on the dock in front of a cruise ship. Dan is wearing a blue and white Hawaiian print shirt and sunglasses. Margo has her hair in a pony tail and is wearing a white tank top. Molly is wearing a red shirt with white sleeves and blue jeans. Jimmy is wearing a red jacket with a hood and jeans

This kind of happiness requires courage. It requires a willingness to love. A willingness to forgive. A willingness to believe in some sort of goodness. It requires that we each accept what has been lost and offer ourselves to what we have now. Meredith Hall, Beneficence

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Margo Fowkes in Sea

Jimmy speaking at the 2007 LIVESTRONG Challenge. He's wearing a black t-shirt and speaking into a microphone. His hair is dark brown and cut short

Grief Blind

Invisible tears are the hardest to wipe away. Megan Slagter

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Margo Fowkes in Tears

Jimmy wearing a black baseball uniform with PACERS written in light blue across his chest. He has a black baseball cap on with a script L. His left hand has a glove on it and he's holding it at chin level. His right hand is cocked back with a baseball in it.

Finding Him There

The single breath we hold on the thinnest verge of sight: not there there. A curve nearly naked, an arc of almost, a wisp of becoming … Kimberly Blaeser

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