Thank you for sharing across the table. I too have felt weird because I have not cried for mom yet. I cried from release I suppose when they took her body from the house the last time. Sometimes I think I need to sit and concentrate on her leaving so maybe I will face my grief. But then I always find something to run do. I feel ready to go in her room and pack her belongings today. But I will probably face it as a chore not removing my mom’s things. I know people and John say I will grieve in my own way and time. I am the kind of person that needs a time and place to put on my calendar.
I've been scarce around Substack lately (writing AND reading), and yours is one I'm excited to come back and see. This is the first one I came across again, and I'm so sorry for your grief. What a beautiful picture of the "the ties that bind" both back in time and across the veil: families and souls and cultural touchstones and the mismatch of pot and burner. :) Peace to you this week.
We had the rotary olive green phone too - ours was the "desk" model, on the living room end table. My parents no longer live in that house, and no longer have that end table, but I can still picture it. :)
Thank you for sharing across the table. I too have felt weird because I have not cried for mom yet. I cried from release I suppose when they took her body from the house the last time. Sometimes I think I need to sit and concentrate on her leaving so maybe I will face my grief. But then I always find something to run do. I feel ready to go in her room and pack her belongings today. But I will probably face it as a chore not removing my mom’s things. I know people and John say I will grieve in my own way and time. I am the kind of person that needs a time and place to put on my calendar.
I've been scarce around Substack lately (writing AND reading), and yours is one I'm excited to come back and see. This is the first one I came across again, and I'm so sorry for your grief. What a beautiful picture of the "the ties that bind" both back in time and across the veil: families and souls and cultural touchstones and the mismatch of pot and burner. :) Peace to you this week.
We had the rotary olive green phone too - ours was the "desk" model, on the living room end table. My parents no longer live in that house, and no longer have that end table, but I can still picture it. :)
It heats the water up faster. NOT!
Or, it makes the environmental crazies mad because it uses more electricity.