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Tag: grief
Monday Morning Wake-Up Call
Freud, one of the grand masters of narrative, knew that the past is not fixed in the way that linear time suggests. We can return. We can pick up what we dropped. We can mend what others broke.
– Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (Grove Press, March 6, 2012)
Portrait: CCCB
Lightly Child, Lightly.
Why does this light force me back
to my childhood? I wore a yellow
summer dress, and the skirt
made a perfect circle.
Turning and turning
until it flared to the limit
was irresistible . . . . The grass and trees,
my outstretched arms, and the skirt
whirled in the ochre light
of any early June evening.
And I knew then
that I would live,
and go on living: what sorrow it was;
and still what sorrow ignites
but does not consume
my heart.
— Jane Kenyon, from “The Evening Sun” in Collected Poems
Notes:
- Post Title & Inspiration: Aldous Huxley: “It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them.”
- Photo Credit
Walking. With Abby.
360 consecutive days. Like in a row. Morning walk @ Daybreak.
Sun rises at 5:52 a.m, twilight is ~ 50 to 60 minutes earlier. You can do the math. Early.
I’m on I-95 N. I shift in my seat and an electric current fires from lower back, through hip, down the leg and sizzles all the way down to the toes.
I’m back in Physical Therapy. PT, is what the cool people call it. Diagnosis? Not pulled hamstring, but lower back (again). Two weeks in, better, but far from rehabbed.
I ease out of the car, and my conversation with my new Therapist flashes back.
“Where’s Abby?”
Survivor
I know I am becoming someone different. I just don’t know what that difference will be yet.
— Joelle Wright-Terry, 47, a hospice chaplain from Clinton Township, Mich., is a Covid survivor. She lost her husband to the virus last April. From “Emerging From the Coronavirus” in The New York Times, April 5, 2021
Notes:
- Photo: Joshua Terry, Joelle Wright Terry , Marshall Terry and Micah Terry. (Photo by Joelle Wright Terry)
- NPR Story: COVID-19 Remembrance: A Wife Carries On Her Late Husband’s Legacy