Reader's Comment

Sylvia Paull said...
i was just thinking of how to write a response to your blog about dealing with grief, but i've never really experienced deep grief personally. I've always worried about something happening to my son (and still do), but that's anticipatory grief. Grief just seems like a process to me....i've seen people grieve and they go through stages. I like Cindy Sheehan's actions and see that as a positive way to deal with grief and support her son's life while preserving the lives of other young men. When people close to us die, part of us dies too, but then I feel that that person becomes part of us and we grow richer as a result of having known them. That's the way I've absorbed my sadness over my father's death...whenever I hear music he liked (he was a classical musician), I share my joy of the music with his spirit, which is part of what informs me.