Tag Archives: grief
December 3 – Anicca (Change)
What did you let go of this year? Whom did you let go?
Life After Life
“If we want to enter Heaven on Earth, we need only one conscious step and one conscious breath.” ~Thich Nhat Hanh A tornado hit my elementary school when I was eight going on nine. I recall thinking, “I am going to die,” and not being okay with that whatsoever. Then it went away. The storm [...]
The myth of regression.
Yesterday, I regressed. Or, I felt like I did. But how can one regress, really? Time marches on, after all. Every moment is progress. I regressed in the childlike, Freudian way. I bawled. I couldn’t hold it together. I started crying in the afternoon. I cried at work. I cried to Melissa on our walk [...]
I loved Lucy.
[Read the abridged version on Elephant Journal.] My heart is empty. Lucy was with me for nearly nine years, since my parents gave her to me when I graduated from college in May 2002. I loved her so. My constant companion died Sunday in the early evening. A surreal flurry of fleeting emotions pass through [...]
