They were difficult for me to read first because a lot of the things about her sadness were so familiar and painfully immediate to me (my mother died in 2002) but also because so many of the things about her mother's death were very different. For example, she had the opportunity to say goodbye to her mother, which I did not.
Anyhow, BLAH, I don't even know what I'm trying to say--I don't want to pretend to know what your grief is like, but I think it's just really hard and painful and difficult to lose someone, no matter which way you come to it. And it shocks me to write down 2002 because that seems like a long time ago, but my mother's death doesn't feel like it's very far away at all.
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Date: 2009-09-28 03:41 am (UTC)Here a series of articles here--the ones that start with "The Long Goodbye:" about the author's mother's death which you might find interesting.
They were difficult for me to read first because a lot of the things about her sadness were so familiar and painfully immediate to me (my mother died in 2002) but also because so many of the things about her mother's death were very different. For example, she had the opportunity to say goodbye to her mother, which I did not.
Anyhow, BLAH, I don't even know what I'm trying to say--I don't want to pretend to know what your grief is like, but I think it's just really hard and painful and difficult to lose someone, no matter which way you come to it. And it shocks me to write down 2002 because that seems like a long time ago, but my mother's death doesn't feel like it's very far away at all.