Things I Didn't Know I Loved*
* If you are a dreamer, come in.
If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar,
A hope-er, a pray-er, a magic bean buyer...
If you're a pretender, come sit by my fire
For we have some flax-golden tales to spin.
Come in! Come in!
(Shel Silverstein)
April 14, 2006
Things I Didn't Know I Feared
My worst nightmare came true on Thursday. But she didn't die, I was given a second chance, and I pray I'll remember, daily,
all the lessons learnt.
How To Deal With Terrible News
'Imagine yourself in a space suit, floating through dust,
and that you are the only life on a spinning planet,
because whatever the news, you are still alive,
and you can still tell jokes. Tell the doctor a joke.
Or turn back time, and live in a pressure pot of memory.
You can do that. You can ignore calendars and clocks.
Denial is useful. So is a kind of grinning madness.
You are very lucky to live in a warm house, and think
of your vast bath, and the way that you lie in it, gazing
at the clouds shifting, the pigeons flying home. No one
can take that away from you. And your mother.
Not many women have a mother like yours, brave,
original, who tends your universe, and the future.
Sometimes I think there is no such thing as terrible,
only blocked things, lost words, souls that missed the train.'
Julia Darling
Her blog and her obituary.
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