"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.
Wednesday, November 22, 2023
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.
Sunday, November 12, 2023
Here's what I know: death abducts the dying, but grief steals from those left behind. - Katherine Owen, Seeing Julia When you have experienced a loss, you can feel like a victim. Something precious was taken away from you, and there is a definite helplessness to that. You need to make the active... Sign in to see full entry.
Saturday, November 11, 2023
"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... Sign in to see full entry.
Friday, November 10, 2023
"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.
Thursday, November 9, 2023
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.
Wednesday, November 8, 2023
"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.
Tuesday, November 7, 2023
"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, T wo Cats and the Woman They Own: or Lessons I Learned from My Cats Show yourself the same patience you show everyone else in... Sign in to see full entry.