Twenty Minutes – My Chest Fills With Burning Coals. But I Keep Breathing.
I’m surrounded by grief, love, laughter, joy, sorrow, and devastation, but it belongs to them. None of it belongs to me. My ache is my own.
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DonateDanielle Rushing is a 2023 graduate of The War Horse’s Writing Seminar for Post-9/11 Gold Star Children and Siblings. Her early love of reading turned into a love of writing, which became a form of therapy after the death of her brother, Josh, to suicide in 2013 and helped her cope with the sudden and traumatic loss. She lives in Wyoming with her husband and is a proud dog mom.
I’m surrounded by grief, love, laughter, joy, sorrow, and devastation, but it belongs to them. None of it belongs to me. My ache is my own.