Aug 10, 2023·edited Aug 10, 2023Liked by Rebecca Faulks
Thank you for sharing about Josiah, his life and death. Grief certainly makes us vulnerable in all sorts of ways. I love this paragraph's descriptions:
"Hopes you never realized were there stab deep with the absoluteness of their impossibility. Watching others grieve exponentially increases the pain. The loss does not evaporate— each one must bear it; each one must make the grief their own."
August is also the month one of my husband's college friends died from cancer, so this topic of looming anniversaries has been on my mind. The experience of his passing last year -- along with the grief of his widow, my husband, and others -- was a viscerally charged and complicated thing. Those stabs of absoluteness cut deep. And I'm sure it will continue to be weird and intermingled as time goes on. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for sharing about Josiah, his life and death. Grief certainly makes us vulnerable in all sorts of ways. I love this paragraph's descriptions:
"Hopes you never realized were there stab deep with the absoluteness of their impossibility. Watching others grieve exponentially increases the pain. The loss does not evaporate— each one must bear it; each one must make the grief their own."
August is also the month one of my husband's college friends died from cancer, so this topic of looming anniversaries has been on my mind. The experience of his passing last year -- along with the grief of his widow, my husband, and others -- was a viscerally charged and complicated thing. Those stabs of absoluteness cut deep. And I'm sure it will continue to be weird and intermingled as time goes on. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for sharing. I’m so sorry to hear about this friend. Those are sorrows like no other.