by wonderersheart | Mar 15, 2012 | After suicide, Life after loss |
Today is the anniversary of Mottsu’s death by suicide. He died 8 years ago and I remember good times. A Mistake – —Czeslaw Milosz I thought: all this is only preparation For learning, at last, how to die. Mornings and dusks, in the grass under a maple...
by wonderersheart | Nov 23, 2011 | Dogs: loving and losing dogs, Grief and grieving, Life after loss |
I am reading Blue Nights by Joan Didion, she’s an author who determinedly dissects her experiences of loss working over the hurt, baring harrowing personal wounds. Early in the book Joan Didion refers the psychiatrist Karl Menninger’s work Man Against...
by wonderersheart | Nov 1, 2011 | Life after loss, Mottsu and me |
This morning I passed an elderly man in my street, it is his street too, I said “Good Morning” he said “Good Morning” neither of us missed a step or changed our pace. We shared a greeting in the early quiet of Melbourne Cup Day. My eyes filled...
by wonderersheart | Oct 25, 2011 | Life after loss |
I have to admit I googled myself, haven’t you done the same? I found this picture: …made me smile. While I am confessing to searching for myself on-line, I should come clean and admit it is something I do from time to time. Google is one of my favourite...
by wonderersheart | Jul 18, 2011 | Grief and grieving, Life after loss |
Book Club met yesterday, we’re a long standing book club, a group who have become close thanks to our regular bi-monthly Sunday afternoon get together. We are an in-sickness-and-in-health book-club and we’ve celebrated a wedding, births, holidays, job-promotions and...
by wonderersheart | May 27, 2011 | After suicide, Life after loss, Reported in the news |
I am inclined to be one-sided and I don’t believe that suicide is a selfish act. I wrote exactly that recently. It’s a difficult impassioned discussion. I know that something shared by those who’ve had someone close to them die by suicide is the...
