Tag: loss
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Chapter 76. Loss. What I Mourn. What I Don’t.
Each of us experiences loss differently. My mother mourned the loss of things. If a dish broke, she was upset. Sometimes I could understand it when the thing held meaning. Like it was her mother’s. I thought she would mourn the loss of her home when she sold and moved to an apartment. She didn’t. She walked out the front door, didn’t…
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Chapter 32. Grief
We heard Anderson Cooper speak this week at the Colorado Speakers Series. He spoke about grief, his changing life, the deaths of his mother, father, and brother. He spoke of the grief that surrounded him during reporting the most heinous war crimes. But that grief wasn’t his. He used the collective grief of war-torn countries as a protective…
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Chapter 26. My Brother.
I was born so my brother would have someone to torment. We grew up in the ‘50’s and it was a perfect time to be a kid. We freely roamed the streets, alleys and parks. Got on busses and went where we pleased. Walked to the movie theatre where my brother would tell me I couldn’t sit with him…
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