It's very hot and humid in London and I am struggling with meditation. I cope very badly with the heat and being mindful of my body is actually painful and upsetting, I just want to be unconscious and for time to pass quickly until it gets cooler. I guess just the exercise of trying and experiencing the difficulty is useful.
Udge, how extraordinarily beautiful, holding your grandson's hand just 15 minutes into this world... completely made my day, and many blessings on the birth of your grandson.
Jude, congratulations! How wonderful that you can remind us of new life. I went to visit a friend with a brand-new baby last week, and it did the same thing for me. A friend also reminded me that it is always important to "nurture the growing tip" - meaning, even when our attention is absorbed by death and dying, it's important to look toward the places in us and in others where new life is occuring and to nurture them. Out of my father's grief and in my own changed realities, I also see signs of new life, new possibilities, and I think we can and should nurture those without feeling like we're being somehow untrue to the grieving process or the person who has gone.
I’ll be traveling for a week or so … a short journey, but an important one
I went on a long journey by train a couple years ago to visit my first home and my mother’s grave. You can see the journal pages in my album on Picturetrail
Next week I leave on a shorter journey of remembrance … first to visit the grave of my son in a small town in central BC. It’s his birthday. I took his ashes there a few years ago so he could rest next to his Granddad … he never knew his father. Then on to Alberta where I’ll go tramping in the hills and alpine meadows with my cousin. He’s not well, and I may not see him again. He’s a professional photographer of wildflowers. We’ll visit the gorgeous hill country where the movie “Brokeback Mountain” was filmed.
We have stories to tell each other about our fathers who were brothers.
Jude and Beth. Thank you for the reminder. I needed to read your posts.
[[[Janice]]]. Wishing you a peaceful journey of remembrance and holiday of happy memories. The Brokeback Mountain scenery is indeed stunning ... and I will visit the link you kindly posted.
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It's very hot and humid in London and I am struggling with meditation. I cope very badly with the heat and being mindful of my body is actually painful and upsetting, I just want to be unconscious and for time to pass quickly until it gets cooler. I guess just the exercise of trying and experiencing the difficulty is useful.
Udge, how extraordinarily beautiful, holding your grandson's hand just 15 minutes into this world... completely made my day, and many blessings on the birth of your grandson.
Jude, oh thank you for sharing that, and much love to you, your daughter and your new grandson!
Jude, congratulations! How wonderful that you can remind us of new life. I went to visit a friend with a brand-new baby last week, and it did the same thing for me. A friend also reminded me that it is always important to "nurture the growing tip" - meaning, even when our attention is absorbed by death and dying, it's important to look toward the places in us and in others where new life is occuring and to nurture them. Out of my father's grief and in my own changed realities, I also see signs of new life, new possibilities, and I think we can and should nurture those without feeling like we're being somehow untrue to the grieving process or the person who has gone.
I’ll be traveling for a week or so … a short journey, but an important one
I went on a long journey by train a couple years ago to visit my first home and my mother’s grave. You can see the journal pages
in my album on Picturetrail
Next week I leave on a shorter journey of remembrance … first to visit the grave of my son in a small town in central BC. It’s his birthday. I took his ashes there a few years ago so he could rest next to his Granddad … he never knew his father. Then on to Alberta where I’ll go tramping in the hills and alpine meadows with my cousin. He’s not well, and I may not see him again. He’s a professional photographer of wildflowers. We’ll visit the gorgeous hill country where the movie “Brokeback Mountain” was filmed.
We have stories to tell each other about our fathers who were brothers.
Jude and Beth. Thank you for the reminder. I needed to read your posts.
[[[Janice]]]. Wishing you a peaceful journey of remembrance and holiday of happy memories.
The Brokeback Mountain scenery is indeed stunning ... and I will visit the link you kindly posted.
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