By It’s an impossible task. How do you both love someone and grieve them while they’re still here, either physically or mentally (or both)? This is the paradox of anticipatory grief, what you feel when: • You know your child is going to die at some point of the illness with which she was born, but somehow she manages to hang on. You don’t know why you can’t protect her from what the treatments, as well
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To know my dad was to know someone who was insanely positive, all the time. During the occasional ski trip that coincided with rough weather, with snow painfully pelting our frozen faces, my dad would ski up to us with the hugest smile on his face, icicles forming on his mustache, and say “isn’t this GREAT?!” There was nothing that was going to stop him from enjoying a trip he had planned. As we got
Read moreHere are some truths about mom…. She was born in 1936 and grew up in West Virginia and her dad said he wouldn’t pay for her to go to college so she earned a scholarship to UCLA as a National Merit Scholar. And she went, where she met my dad at a party in Malibu as a senior. She was President of her class who majored in Retail Merchandizing. I remember she sewed all our
Read moreConsider the fact that we care deeply about what happens to us after we pass on. A way in which our departure is meaningful is to see yourself as something greater: a family, a community, a society. Loyalty solves the paradox of our ordinary existence, by showing us outside of ourselves the cause which is to be served. {Josiah Royce’ ,1908} As our time winds down, we all seek comfort in simple pleasures-companionship, everyday routines,
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