"Grief lasts longer than sympathy, which is one of the tragedies of the grieving." - Elizabeth McCracken You probably haven't received a sympathy card in quite a while. Most of your friends, family, neighbors, and coworkers already know about your loss and have reached out to you. You may be feeling... Sign in to see full entry.
Sunday, November 6, 2022
Saturday, November 5, 2022
"Tears are a river that takes you somewhere...Tears lift your boat off the rocks, off dry ground, carrying it downriver to someplace better." - Clarissa Pinkola Estés It hasn't been too long to cry. Cry when you need to cry and dry your tears when you are ready. Sign in to see full entry.
Friday, November 4, 2022
"Heart weeps. Head tries to help heart. Head tells heart how it is, again: You will lose the ones you love. They will all go. But even the earth will go, someday. Heart feels better, then. But the words of head do not remain long in the ears of heart. Heart is so new to this. I want them back, says... Sign in to see full entry.
Thursday, November 3, 2022
"Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size." - Mark Twain When you turn on the news or read a magazine article that focuses on someone else's tragedy, you may feel guilty because... Sign in to see full entry.
Wednesday, November 2, 2022
You endure what is supposedly unbearable, and before you know it, you would have done the impossible by bearing the unbearable. - Donovan People told you things would slowly get better, but until you survive the first year of grief, that can be hard to believe. Looking back, you have made it through... Sign in to see full entry.
Tuesday, November 1, 2022
"You will lose someone you can't live without, and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn't seal back up. And you come through. It's like... Sign in to see full entry.
"Life Lesson 3: You can't rush grief. It has its own timetable. All you can do is make sure there are lots of soft places around -- beds, pillows, arms, laps." - Patti Davis, Two Cats and the Woman They Own: or Lessons I Learned from My Cats Show yourself the same patience that you show to everyone... Sign in to see full entry.
Monday, October 31, 2022
"The depth of the feeling continued to surprise and threaten me, but each time it hit again and I bore it...I would discover that it hadn't washed me away." - Anne Lamott - Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith Just about the time you think you are doing better, something happens that brings... Sign in to see full entry.
Sunday, October 30, 2022
"Sometimes she'd go a whole day without thinking of him or missing him. Why not? She had quite a full life, and really, he'd often been hard to deal with and hard to live with. A project, the Yankee old timers like her very own Dad might have said. And then sometimes a day would come, a gray one (or... Sign in to see full entry.
Saturday, October 29, 2022
"Sometimes, there was no getting over it. Sometimes, you lived with the empty place inside of you until you imploded on it, loss as singularity, or until the empty place expanded and hollowed out the rest of you so thoroughly you became the walking dead, a ghost in your own life." - Caitlin... Sign in to see full entry.