"She lost much of her appetite. At night, an invisible hand kept shaking her awake every few hours. Grief was physiological, a disturbance of the blood. Sometimes a whole minute would pass in nameless dread - the bedside clock ticking, the blue moonlight coating the window like glue - before she'd... Sign in to see full entry.
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Monday, August 19, 2024
"Before I lost my father, I never understood the rituals surrounding funerals: the wake, the service itself, the reception afterward,the dinners prepared by well-meaning friends and delivered in plastic containers, even the popular habit of making poster boards filled with photos of the dear... Sign in to see full entry.
Sunday, August 18, 2024
"Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air." - Pablo Neruda. It can feel almost painful to be in the same place you lived before your loss. Everywhere you look, triggers bring you back to the time before your loved one's death. Try to take a... Sign in to see full entry.
Tuesday, August 13, 2024
"Adam pressed his hand to his face. Sighed. "Right. It's just that... He died. And I'm so freaking angry..." - Kristina McBride, One Moment Do you wish you could still talk to your loved one? Record what you wish you could have said. While you never need to play it back, the process of saying what... Sign in to see full entry.
Monday, August 12, 2024
"We don't forget, but something vacant settles in us." - Roland Barthes, Mourning Diary When you are ready, creating a photobook, editing home movies, or crafting a scrapbook of memories of your loved one can be a way to build a lasting tribute to that person that will bring you solace in the months... Sign in to see full entry.
Sunday, August 11, 2024
"There are silences and silences. No one of them is like another. There is the silence of grief in velvet-draped rooms of a plushly carpeted funeral parlor which is far different from the bleak and terrible silence of grief in a widower's lonely bedroom." - Dean Koontz, Phantoms. When the loneliness... Sign in to see full entry.
Saturday, August 10, 2024
"I think I am beginning to understand why grief feels like suspense. It comes from the frustration of so many impulses that had become habitual. Thought after thought, feeling after feeling, action after action had H. for their object. Now, their target is gone. I keep on through habit fitting an... Sign in to see full entry.
Friday, August 9, 2024
"...this woman, moved by some private sorrow as much as the words being spoken, cried almost silently, unobserved by others, apart from Mama Ramotswe, who stretched out her hand and laid it on her shoulder. Do not cry, Mama, she began to whisper, but changed her words even as she uttered them, and... Sign in to see full entry.
Thursday, August 8, 2024
"Listen, Harper. I realize how hard this is for you." A flash of anger heats up in my chest. She doesn't understand. She can't. If she did, she'd leave me alone instead of trying to force me to talk about this." - Hannah Harrington, Saving June. Take time today to connect with the people who have... Sign in to see full entry.
Wednesday, August 7, 2024
It feels weird, being out in the real world again. Around people just living their lives like normal. Their presence is oppressive. The very fact that the world is going on as usual, like nothing ever happened, makes me want to scream. I know it's irrational to expect everything to grind to a halt... Sign in to see full entry.