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Posts by Amy-Van-Horn

Amy was born and raised on a five generation dairy and tobacco farm. She finds inspiration in the rolling hills, acres of forests, rich soil, and morning mist while working alongside her family. Her passion is adopting sweet animals and rehabilitating them with her glorious husband on the same land her ancestors farmed.

Finding Life Through Death: How Loss Teaches Us to Appreciate More

“If you learn from a loss you have not lost.” ~Austin O’Malley

The police officer walked toward me, leaving the multi-car accident behind him as he placed a bloody wallet in my hand. He asked me to open it up and verify that this property was indeed my best friend’s, who also happened to be my only brother.

At that very moment, the world I had so carefully crafted around me shattered, and became an unfamiliar and unwelcoming place for me. My parents divorced within months of him dying, and I used his loss and their separation as an excuse …