The Secret to Hummingbird Cake

by Celeste Fletcher McHale

It’s not how long you live; it’s what you leave behind.

“You are responsible for what you do. No matter what you go through, no matter what happens to you, no matter how much someone hurt you, the choices you make are ultimately your own.”

It wasn’t a person’s age that made death sad. It was the size of absence it caused in the ones left behind.

An American writer, Rita Mae Brown wrote, “I still miss those I loved who are no longer with me, but I find I am grateful for having loved them. The gratitude has finally conquered the loss.”