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.
Wednesday, November 2, 2022
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.
Friday, October 28, 2022
"What happens when you let go, when your strength leaves you and you sink into darkness, when there's nothing that you or anyone else can do, no matter how desperate you are, no matter how you try? Perhaps it's then, when you have neither pride nor power, that you are saved, brought to an... Sign in to see full entry.
Thursday, October 27, 2022
Today, I visited you in a memory, something I couldn't yet do in the early days of grief. I let my heart wander and let my mind roam free in the way that it sued to be to feel your presence - so persistent, so steady, to reflect, to remember and see that you are still with me. I knew those moments... Sign in to see full entry.
Wednesday, October 26, 2022
"The weird, weird thing about devastating loss is that life actually goes on. When you're faced with a tragedy, a loss so huge that you have no idea how you can live through it, somehow, the world keeps turning, the seconds keep ticking." - James Patterson, Angel When you walk down the street, you... Sign in to see full entry.
Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable. - George S. Patton The contradictions are what make human behavior so maddening and yet so fascinating, all at the same time. - Joan D. Vinge The curious paradox is that when I accept... Sign in to see full entry.