Category: Grieving

Anxiety, Blog, Grieving, Life, Memoir, Self-Compassion, Writing

Hungering for Solid Footing

rainamorton

“…nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.” ― Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times Often lately I find myself asking my conscience or my inner voice what all this past year has taught me? I really plead with her to answer me. What have I learned that I needed to know, I ask. Have I even learned it, because some things seem to be holding on so tightly? Almost a year ago now I can pretty much pinpoint precisely when things started snowballing around me, and I felt myself losing the tenuous control that I thought I had had on my life...

Blog, Grief, Grieving, Loss, Love, Memoir, Memories, Motherhood, Personal, Writing

The Lunch

rainamorton

Almost exactly three weeks after we lost my mother, my father and I were grabbing lunch one day, just the two of us. We'd decided to eat at a lovely little cafe not too far from where we'd been staying every night for these past few weeks; my grandmother's house, overlooking the beach and the… Continue reading The Lunch

Blog, Grieving, Life, Loss, Love, Memoir, Memories, Motherhood, Personal, Unconditional Love, Writing

A Hundred, Million Worlds

rainamorton

When my son was a child, we said some variation of this to each other every day and every night, "I love you a hundred, million worlds." I'm not exactly sure of the origins of our saying it, but I know that my heart had never before felt the way that it did about him,… Continue reading A Hundred, Million Worlds