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

[trudybooth.livejournal.com]

aw man...

::snuggles::

[zenkitty-714.livejournal.com]

Virtual hugs to you. You've been in my thoughts a lot.

[la-perkins.livejournal.com]

you left off awesome.

[mearagrrl.livejournal.com]

Well, but awesome isn't a NEW thing...

[tskaredoff.livejournal.com]

You guys. I can't see it myself, but thank you.

[la-perkins.livejournal.com]

true, but it is perpertual

[larisa57.livejournal.com]

Lots of hugs and love, t.

[fiorituranotte.livejournal.com]

I know there isn't much that anyone could do right now, but I coulf fix the lack of things to read when you are up for it.

[tskaredoff.livejournal.com]

That's very thoughtful, but I'm not lacking things to read, I'm lacking concentration sufficient to get me through more than a haiku. But I expect that will get better.

[fiorituranotte.livejournal.com]

In that case I recommend magazines with short articles. Take care.

[tskaredoff.livejournal.com]

That is a briliant idea! I'm sure I have some lying around, too. Thank you.

[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

[pix-kristin.livejournal.com]

You are also loved. Important to add to the list.

[lala-lisa.livejournal.com]

yes, this

[fufaraw]

Add "listened to" and "heard" to that list. Also thought often of, with affection.

[thezzyzx.livejournal.com]

...one of the most amazing people I know...

[windsparrow.livejournal.com]

::hugs::