Year: 2022
Time Is Ungovernable…
“Time is ungovernable, but grief presents us with a choice: what do we do with the savage energies of bereavement? What do we do with the memory - or in the memory - of the beloved? Some commemorate love with statuary, but behavior, too, is a memorial, as is a well-lived life. In death, there … Continue reading Time Is Ungovernable…
Dear fellow motherless daughters: Here’s how I’ve learned to cope on Mother’s Day
https://www.yahoo.com/gma/dear-fellow-motherless-daughters-heres-095400614.html The other day, someone who'd just met me asked what I'd be doing with my mother this Sunday. It was such a jolting question to come from someone who didn't even know my name, but I saw her apology, and her inability to understand that not everyone has a living parent to celebrate with, … Continue reading Dear fellow motherless daughters: Here’s how I’ve learned to cope on Mother’s Day
The Heart Mourns…
"The heart mourns people and places and returns to them in dreams…” ―John Geddes
Yom Ha’atzmaut (Israeli Independence Day)
Yom Ha'atzmaut: 74 years of this great nation/state. I also give them so much credit for the silent fireworks which were absolutely magnificent, but also well thought-out to avoid triggering PTSD sufferers. Some of the celebration was shared to my Stories yesterday.
You Left Ground and Sky Weeping…
“You left ground and sky weeping, mind and soul full of grief. No one can take your place in existence, or in absence. Both mourn, the angels, the prophets, and this sadness I feel has taken from me the taste of language, so that I cannot say the flavor of my being apart.”―Rumi
