For me, spending time everyday facing and wrestling with the thoughts and feelings this grief creates has made a difference. It’s like adding oars to my boat, sometimes I still can’t beat the current, but they help me navigate it, and when the current isn’t flowing, I can move along at my own pace.
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Five Months
5 months today. We’ve traveled a far journey, a lifetime, many times over, in just a few months.
Distillation
I’m no scientist, but this whole process seems like distillation. If grief is love, and I can separate resentment and regret, I can maybe experience true, pure grief, which is love. Not that it won’t be hard, but it will be true.