Sad-DADD: August 2017

Sunday, August 13, 2017

Autumn Is Forever

Autumn Is Forever

(for Rachel)

who we are can never be contained

forever in this flesh or written in stone

sooner or later we outgrow our selves and learn

by leaving what the trees have always known

WORDS TO REMEMBER

Grief allows me to see beyond my wall and talie the immense suffering that results from human lostnessl It opens my heart to a genuine solidarity with my fellow humans."
Henri JM Nouwen - The Return of the Prodigal Son

"Some days he felt so happily haunted,
by loving ghosts and gods upholding him.
Some days he felt entirely alone."
Thomas Lynch - The Sin-Eater

"He decided to give up the worst of his lamentations and go on with life for the time being, but with the knowledge that a piece of him was missing and would never be recovered."
Charles Frazier - 13 Moons

"I did know that Susy was part of us; I did not know that she could go away, and take our lives with her, yet leave our dull bodies behind. And I did not know what she was. To me she was but treasure in the bank; the amount known, the need to look at it daily, handle it, weigh it, count it, realize it, not necessary; and now that I would do it, it is too late; they tell me it is not there, has vanished away in the night, the bank is broken, my fortune is gone, I am a pauper. How am I to comprehend this? How am I to have it? Why am I robbed, and who is benefited?"
Mark Twain, in a letter to his friend, Rev Joseph Twichell

"If, as a culture, we don't bear witness to grief, the burden of loss is placed entirely on the bereaved, while the rest of us avert our eyes and wait for those in mourning to stop being sad, to let go, to move on, to cheer up. And if they don't - if they have loved too deeply, if they do wake each morning thinking, I cannot continue to live - well, then we pathologize their pain; we call their suffering a disease.
We do not help them: we tell them to get help."
Cheryl Strayed, "The Love Of My Life"

"All we can experience from the perspective of our deathbound living is that the tomb is open and empty, a fitting image for wide open hope."
David Steindl-Rast - Gratefulness, The Heart of Prayer

"Are these words or tears?
Is weeping speech? What shall I do, my love?"
Rumi - I Have Five Things To Say

"And you were a presence full of light upon this earth.
And I am a witness to your life and to its worth."
The Mountain Goats - Matthew 25:21

"Sometimes, meaningless gestures are all we have."

Jennifer Connelly as Sarah Williams in "Waking the Dead"

"Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is (their) duty."

Elie Wiesel

"I have woven a parachute out of everything broken."

William Stafford

"Just because there are questions does not mean there are answers."

from the film "In The Realm Of The Unreal."

"No matter how bad things get, you just go on living - even if it kills you."

Sholem Aleichem

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle."

Philo of Alexandria

"Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything."

C.S. Lewis from "A Grief Observed"

"We must be willing to get rid of the life we planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us."

Joseph Campbell

"We can't have the happiness of yesterday without the pain of today. That's the deal."

Joy Gresham in "Shadowlands"

"When you can't make sense of someone leaving, you try to make sense of what they left behind. And it makes it a whole lot easier if what they left you is beautiful."

Georgia from the series "Dead Like Me"

"Friends are for loving and listening and advice may be better left to others."

Ray Houle

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Sunday, August 13, 2017

Autumn Is Forever

WORDS TO REMEMBER

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