Your experience with your Dad, the phone calls you never made for various reasons, resinated with me deeply, but oddly, it's an experience I yet to have. I guess the grief I've suffered is missing out on potential, which comes from losing a lover. That promise of a future suddenly lost is devastating, especially when they're still alive and present somewhere in one's sphere, sharing that potential with someone else. It's like death too in a way, but you're the one who's dead, hanging around like an unwelcome ghost.
There are so many degrees of deaths that we experience in our lives. I think about the Death card in tarot and how it so often portends a change; sometimes for the better, sometimes not.
I am familiar with being that unwanted ghost. It's such an awkward role to be in, and yet it can be so difficult to let go and find a place where we are appreciated fully and corporeally.
I hope you have a lovely Thanksgiving with many who appreciate all your goodness.
I find myself needing the comfort of my own words this morning at the news that a dear sweet cousin died unexpectedly yesterday.
This life is such a brief gift, and I hope as we move into this week of thanksgiving that we all hold those we love just a little bit closer in our hearts.
These are such beautiful, compassionate & thought-provoking pieces, helping me conjure up my own memories of friends & family of blessed memory. Thank you! ✌🏼❤️
I find myself coming across two kind of people...those that know what's going on and those that haven't yet faced what's going on but hopefully will..and I have found patience with those that haven't seen the horizon...
"...as I have aged, grief has become less of a feeling to overcome and more of a reminder that I am here, and I have been lucky enough to be loved in this lifetime."
Your experience with your Dad, the phone calls you never made for various reasons, resinated with me deeply, but oddly, it's an experience I yet to have. I guess the grief I've suffered is missing out on potential, which comes from losing a lover. That promise of a future suddenly lost is devastating, especially when they're still alive and present somewhere in one's sphere, sharing that potential with someone else. It's like death too in a way, but you're the one who's dead, hanging around like an unwelcome ghost.
Beautifully stated, Sue.
There are so many degrees of deaths that we experience in our lives. I think about the Death card in tarot and how it so often portends a change; sometimes for the better, sometimes not.
I am familiar with being that unwanted ghost. It's such an awkward role to be in, and yet it can be so difficult to let go and find a place where we are appreciated fully and corporeally.
I hope you have a lovely Thanksgiving with many who appreciate all your goodness.
Thank you, Matt, and have a safe and happy Thanksgiving too.
Sing and don't stop singing.
I find myself needing the comfort of my own words this morning at the news that a dear sweet cousin died unexpectedly yesterday.
This life is such a brief gift, and I hope as we move into this week of thanksgiving that we all hold those we love just a little bit closer in our hearts.
These are such beautiful, compassionate & thought-provoking pieces, helping me conjure up my own memories of friends & family of blessed memory. Thank you! ✌🏼❤️
I find myself coming across two kind of people...those that know what's going on and those that haven't yet faced what's going on but hopefully will..and I have found patience with those that haven't seen the horizon...
Except I am impatient with those who won't face the truth, but do wish someday I will find what you have. Thank you.
"...as I have aged, grief has become less of a feeling to overcome and more of a reminder that I am here, and I have been lucky enough to be loved in this lifetime."
This hit hard. Thanks for the reminder.
Thank you, Liza.
I've been really enjoying your avian insights.
Wow! My kindred spirit who I am connected to in ways deeper than I even realized, thank you for the depth of your words and the love of your heart.
Yes!
We have been journeying down parallel paths for quite some time. I feel so lucky to know you in this lifetime and especially to call you friend, Kate.
lovely Matt. thank you