Woke up this morning from a dream featuring my late dad and late sister. Ive not had a dream featuring the both of them before. We were driving in an old car to a nearby ATM machine, to withdraw some cash for a road trip. Where to, I'm not sure. But somewhere out here in the West.

#GriefIsLove
#WestTexas
#California

Anthony Rapp (@albinokid) shares how we can mourn who we are to those we’ve lost in Meet Me Where I Am film.

#anthonyrapp #rentthemusical #withoutyoumusical #documentary #parentloss #griefislove #love #griefsucks #griefqoutes #meetmewhereiam #meetmewhereiamfilm #documentary #documentaryfilm #grief #griefsupport #loss #griefawareness #helloimgrieving #findingmeaning #film #letusshowsomelove❤️ #followthisaccount

Every so often I push myself to spend a day feeling the ache of my losses. Friends, parents, relationships, children, pets, and past identities that no longer fit.
It's never an easy day, but I find it a necessary exercise for me that keeps my heart open and grateful.
#grief #griefislove

The Committee Weighs In
Andrea Cohen

I tell my mother
I’ve won the Nobel Prize.

Again? she says. Which
discipline this time?

It’s a little game
we play: I pretend

I’m somebody, she
pretends she isn’t dead

#poetry #poet #poetrycommunity #poem #poetrylovers #poems​ #griefislove

Grief
By Raymond Carver

Woke up early this morning and from my bed
looked far across the Strait to see
a small boat moving through the choppy water,
a single running light on. Remembered
my friend who used to shout
his dead wife’s name from the hilltops
around Perugia. Who set a plate
for her at his simple table long after
she was gone. And opened the windows
so she could have fresh air. Such display
I found embarrassing. So did his other
friends. I couldn’t see it.
Not until this morning.

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This is an incredibly beautiful podcast that is about grief and the loss that both Stephen Colbert and Andersoon Cooper have experienced. No politics at all. They talk about family deaths which include suicide, unexpected death, and expected death. They talk about how grief impacts them in obvious and unknown ways.
#grief #griefislove #podcast #andersoncooper #stephencolbert

https://pca.st/podcast/3e382de0-0d87-013b-e60d-0acc26574db2

#today I'm attempting to remain mindful and allow for a restful pace before heading to my afternoon/evening shift at the Practicum. The pending funeral for my father in law is still running in the background of my mind. There's a gentleness between me and my husband and children in the wake of this loss that I have not felt since the loss of my brother almost 16 years ago. #griefislove #Gentleness #coffee #coffeetime #coffeethoughts

26 years ago today this incredible person died. It feels like forever and yesterday. #griefislove

So much of my writing in the weeks & months after losing my grandfather was centered on trying to process that grief. Even though I spent quite a lot of time both thinking and writing about my grandfather, I never cried. Not once. After a while, that fact started to really worry me.
This is a post from my blog about how that was finally resolved:
🔗 https://jeffreyaward.wordpress.com/2022/12/17/grief-dreaming/
#Grief #GriefIsLove #Blog #WritingAsTherapy

This will be my third Christmas without my beloved grandfather, a loss that left a hero-sized hole in my life. After he passed in 2020 at the age of 97, I wrote the following as a bit of a eulogy, shared now in recognition of all of us who are approaching the holidays through the filter of grief.

My eulogy:
https://jeffreyaward.wordpress.com/2022/12/08/eulogy-man-and-a-boat/

#Grief #GriefIsLove #GriefAtTheHolidays #Eulogy #WW2Veteran #HeroSizedHole

Me and my grandfather, Christmas 1972: