by Evermore | Apr 12, 2023 | Community, Family, Grief
Dear Friends unknown, We are joined together by so many things in grief. Maybe there’s a luminous cord connecting us through sleepless hours and hardest times. The poet Jack Ridl told me years ago, after my father died, “Grief is an ambush. When you’re least...
by Evermore | Apr 11, 2023 | Community, Family, Grief
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Before my son Finn died, I already had a daily writing practice in place. The day he died was the first night I hadn’t written a poem in over thirteen years. And then I didn’t write at all for the first seven weeks after his death. I...
by Evermore | Apr 11, 2023 | Community, Family, Grief
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Losing anyone in your life affects EVERYTHING in your life. Your perspectives shift. You question your own mortality. Losing someone close to you makes you feel like a raw nerve in a world of razor-wire. Everything hurts. ...
by Evermore | Apr 11, 2023 | Community, Family, Grief
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]I lost a best friend, fellow vagabond, and gifted poet to a long battle with cancer. We traveled and performed together for years. We joked over homemade-hotel-room drinks about how the $31 we raked in from the donations for the...
by Evermore | Apr 10, 2023 | Community, Family, Grief
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]First, I have lived long enough to have outlived most of the people who were important to me when I was young. My parents died years ago. My younger brother died three years ago. All but one of my aunts and uncles have died. Cousins...
by Evermore | Apr 10, 2023 | Community, Family, Grief
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]My own loss and the deep grief that accompanies it brought about profound change in the way I experience creativity. Deep loss breaks you down in a way that also cracks you open. There is loss of control and surrender. Tears and...