Category: Grief
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Strange awakening

Grief strengthens the spirit. If you live alone long enough, without the woman who made you a man, you become your own man again.
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Aboard the Grief Train

The Grief Train is a treacherous journey across suspension bridges of disbelief and barren prairies of purgatory and mountain passes between Heaven and Hell.
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‘A Grief Observed’ — and Shared

In memoriam and with personal gratitude to the Christian author C.S. Lewis who died on November 22, 1963. My gratitude is for his book ‘A Grief Observed.’
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Let your wife go, man, let her be at peace

For more than a year, insanity raged throughout the house — damn good thing the nearest neighbor is not within shouting distance.
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Grief by any other name is still hell

Grief counselors call prolonged grieving “adjustment disorder.” To me, the grief of losing a soulmate is hell on earth. This “adjustment disorder” bull reminds me of the George Carlin routine where he ridicules America’s penchants for euphemisms.
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Alone at Cocktail Hour

He decides to live in her memory This is the only option he can see. The few people he knows get annoyed That he lives alone in a void. Look for someone else, he’s often told, And do it soon before you’re too old. Go out, find another companion, Go together to the Grand Canyon.…
