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Mother loss
This whole series has been gripping and moving. It's so comforting to be invited into a community of grief, bonding around deep truths that can somehow be shared through story and gesture despite their being, in the end, private and unreachable. I was especially struck by your expressed wish not to recover, to hang on to your grief--because ...
Posted to Grieving by tochter on October 16, 2009
Thank You
Thank you for this beautiful series on grief. My mother died of renal cell carcinoma on March 25, 2009. Your essays are part of my therapy, along with friends and family, Leonard Cohen songs, and a Facebook page in my mother's honor. As I read your essays, I feel as if you are my grief travel guide, walking a few steps ahead of me and clearing ...
Posted to Grieving by PattiButterfield on May 14, 2009
Your thoughtful and moving series
You have captured it so well, the endlessly complex and painful vicissitudes of mother-loss. I'm so sorry about your mother. Losing her when she was still in her prime truly must feel unbearable. My mother died in January, at 85, after a journey I can only describe as endlessly complicated, not just medically, but in every other way. I have begun ...
Posted to Grieving by MHolmesI on April 10, 2009