Jul. 27, 2009 -
I am thankful for... good health and a thrifty husband. The van he bought on eBay is wonderful!
From the learning rooms...we are in the big push to get work done before our assessment.Gabe and I have completed two assignments in the Bravewriter Kid's Write Basic Class. I also signed Sam up for this online class studying Chaucer.
I am reading...
Grieving the Death of a Mother
I have written before about grief and grieving and some things to say or not say to someone who is bereaved, but my experience with mom's death have added some things to my perspective. This part really touched me.
As a grief educator, I encourage thorough grief. No "light" grief, no short cuts, and no time off for good behavior; the day-in day-out work of grief is necessary and important. Unfortunately, I grieve in a society that aggressively limits grief that reprimands, "You should be over your mother's death by now" (sometimes punctuated with an exclamation point)> It's as if a game clock somewhere determines how much grief time one gets.
After my mother's funeral, I frequently felt as though I had run a gauntlet of questions: "How old was your mother?" When I answered eighty three the frequent response was, "Oh then she lived a good long life." "Oh" felt like a slap to my face. What would be wrong with her living eighty four or eighty-eight years? "Was she a Christian?" Yes. "Well then, she's in a btter place." "Had she been sick?" Yes. "Then her suffering is over." Yes, but what about mysuffering? Grief, particularly for an aged mother, is disenfranchised. Jeanine Cannon Bozeman writes: "I perceived that many people felt tht because mother was "old" and I was an adult child, the loss should be less significant."
It does not matter who you are or how high or low your status in society: how old or young you are
how experienced you are in the black and blue realities of life
how clever you are with words
losing a mother wounds.
For the rest of life, some will have a great difficulty finding words to wrap around a mother's death. A song, a scent, a taste, a fabric or a memory will leave us wordless.
It does not matter how self-confident you are-losing a mother deprives you of a chief-cheerleader.
Mary Poppins
which is much, much better than the movie!!150 Bible Verses Every Catholic Should Know
A picture I am sharing:
Izzy was a volunteer at one of the library shows. This is the Weird Science show! I'm not sure what scientific principal he was illustrating, but it was a lot of fun to watch that toilet paper fly forcefully into the center of the crowd via the leaf blower!
Comments
Aug. 14, 2009 - Untitled Comment
Posted by HSBCompanyBlog
LOL! At first I thought, "Wow, I wish our library did those kind of demonstrations." Then I thought, "Am I crazy? My sons would have toilet paper all over the house!"
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