Identity

[multipurposegoddess]

 As of recently I am:

• a widow
• not in therapy
• a beekeeper
• not reading anything
• an early riser
• unwilling to uncover my mirrors
• getting more things crossed off my to-do list than added on, for once
• finding watching TV to be more of a challenge than I ever thought possible
• probably overusing first-person plural

Comments

[fiorituranotte.livejournal.com]

I know it is not the same thing at all, but it is what I do when the depression kicks in full force and I can't concentrate.

[tskaredoff.livejournal.com]

Honestly, I think it pretty much is the same thing.

I have been entertaining myself (to use the word very loosely) by identifying the Kubler-Ross stages of grief when I'm in them as best I can. i haven't caught myself in Denial, but then, I wouldn't, would I? The rest have shown up at various times, and being able to think "ah, yes, depression, nice to see you" is oddly comforting.

It's good advice, regardless.

Not a magazine, nor yet a haiku

[(Anonymous)]

Whenever I happen upon copies of Good Grief by Granger Westberg, I buy some. It is a very short book with very short chapters, but with a more well-defined spectrum of grief-states than Kubler-Ross's.

Pluses: brevity, requires surprisingly little concentration, about grieving, identifies more reactions as normal than K-R does, carried by most bookstores

Minuses: comes in purse-friendly inexpensive paperback rather than reassuring hardcover, one more book added to collection (or some, if you go my route--not, by the way, like the paranoid Mel Gibson character who keeps buying The Catcher in the Rye in that one movie).

May the Lord bless you and keep you and make his face to shine upon you.

Sincerely,
Alec Sheldon