"Hold him in your memory and find him in your dreams." - Unknown You will see your loved one again in your dreams. It will come when you least expect it and will give you some comfort. Sign in to see full entry.
Tuesday, November 28, 2023
Monday, November 27, 2023
"What I have learned lately is that people deal with death in all sorts of ways. Some of us fight against it, doing everything we can to make it not true. Some of us lose ourselves to grief. Some of us lose ourselves to anger." - Carrie Jones, Entice How are you coping? What does your grief look... Sign in to see full entry.
Sunday, November 26, 2023
"The way I pictured it, all this grief would be like a winter night when you're standing outside. You'll warm up once you get used to the cold. Except after you've been out there for a while, you feel the warmth draining out of you, and you realize the opposite is happening; you're getting colder... Sign in to see full entry.
Saturday, November 25, 2023
"It takes a year, nephew... a full turn of the calendar, to get over losing someone." - Annie Proulx, The Shipping News. It would be comforting to know exactly how long the grieving process takes. Everyone you talk to has his/her own advice, and books on the subject have differing opinions as well.... Sign in to see full entry.
Friday, November 24, 2023
"I wish everyone would stop crying, Tom. Uncle Joe would be so angry about it." But she's crying herself now. "He'd be so angry at us, Tom, for crying so much when all he did was laugh." - Melina Marchetta, The Piper's Son. There may be days when you find yourself crying as much as you did when you... Sign in to see full entry.
Thursday, November 23, 2023
"If he didn't love so deeply, he couldn't grieve so deeply. But he's drowning in it." - Dee Henderson, The Protector. Think about how someone you know seemed when he or she was grieving. How did you feel being around that person? While it's tough to see yourself objectively, try to determine how you... Sign in to see full entry.
Wednesday, November 22, 2023
"Grief... gives life a permanently provisional feeling. It doesn't seem worth starting anything. I can't settle down. I yawn, I fidget, I smoke too much. Up till this, I always had too little time. Now, there is nothing but time. Almost pure time, empty successiveness." - C.S. Lewis, A Grief... Sign in to see full entry.
Monday, November 20, 2023
"Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver." - Sophocles, Antigone Ask someone else who is grieving what he or she needs, and try to do whatever it is for that person. Any concrete things you can do to help someone else will help you with your own grief. Sign in to see full entry.
Sunday, November 19, 2023
"We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world--the company of those who have known suffering." - Helen Keller, We Bereaved. There will be times when you mourn the person you were before you experienced the loss of a loved one. Sign in to see full entry.
Saturday, November 18, 2023
"Take any emotion - love for a woman, or grief for a loved one, or what I'm going through, fear and pain from a deadly illness. If you hold back on the emotions - if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them - you can never get to being detached. You're too busy being afraid. You're... Sign in to see full entry.