Marking your Birthday – “Slow Learning but You Learn to Sway”
It is your birthday, and for the second time since we met, you are not with me on your day. …
It is your birthday, and for the second time since we met, you are not with me on your day. …
When I returned to Bellaghy this summer, I visited Seamus Heaney’s grave again. This time, a simple wooden cross stood in the dirt. This time, I was a widow, changed and contemplative, convinced that cosmic strings keep us connected. This time, I wondered about the spiritual space in which both men might move. Where are they?
Robin Williams – a year later.
I think I said that grief is passive. It creeps over you in those famous waves, you know, whereas mourning …