Comments on: On Grief and Grieving

By: Young Bill Young

Young Bill Young — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 23:11:25 +0000

Thanks for your comments, vehoae. We really are in that time of life, aren’t we? It’s hard to say goodbye to the generation that gave us so much.

Glad that Victoria Diane is on the mend. Those pets of ours are really sweet and special! Tell her “Ruff! Ruff!”

By: vehoae

vehoae — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 21:06:27 +0000

Hello dear friend …. Thank you for your perspectives, Bill. As always, so fitting, so graceful. I understand your comment that “in the end we take our own paths.” We cannot tell what lies behind in the background of people, what critical circumstances or incidents may have impacted everything about their lives, including their relationships with others. All of that brings a different type of, and reason for, grieving. It did (and still does) bear directly on my ongoing grief in missing my spirit-mother who moved to God’s home sixteen months ago.

I continue to think of you Bill, and now of Kitty, as you both are dealing with your parents’ departures for God’s home.

Note: Victoria Diane is doing some better now, so I should be able to return to my research work this week or next.

By: Young Bill Young

Young Bill Young — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 18:23:39 +0000

A thank you to my Facebook friends Kay, Ernestine and Michael for liking the post.

By: Young Bill Young

Young Bill Young — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 18:46:45 +0000

Just went to my Twitter account and I see Wayne has more to share and say…

http://waynemcevilly.blogspot.com/2011/03/on-dimensions-of-our-mortality.html

“In the midst of life, we are in death.” I like that.

By: Young Bill Young

Young Bill Young — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 18:44:06 +0000

Sir Wayne! Much thanks on your thoughtful comments. Reminds me of a saying I heard some time ago: “Death gives meaning to life.” I’ve often thought that lives are like stories, and all stories have a beginning, a middle, and an end. If they’re good stories, we learn something.

I will certainly track down your essay and give it a read.

By: Wayne McEvilly

Wayne McEvilly — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 10:49:28 +0000

Bill-
Thank you for this very thoughtful post. Our mortality is a common thread that should by all rights unite us and bind us together in one humanity with each and every other mortal on the planet. Rather, we seem to ignore it and not see it as conveying a precious quality and quantity on each and every life. This in itself is a fact worthy of grief, and we are surrounded by it. It pervades our social interactions. A true REALization of our common mortality would give rise to compassion and generosity. Yet we are bound to social conventions that place death in the category of taboo.
On a lighter side – I had this LOL moment when news reached me via a tweet (how else?) that Jane Russell had died at age 89 my first thought was: “How young to die!” -it just popped into my brainbox, and I thought 89 young! How funny!
Years ago when I was corresponding with Anais Nin and she was facing her own rapidly vanishing time on the planet I wrote an essay called “The Two Faces Of Death” – she had her publisher use it as an Afterword to her book “Seduction Of The Minotaur” – Time to re-read that and to reflect on the subject you treat here. My mind since childhood has never strayed far from reflections on mortality. It is, finally, what quickens us into an awakening -or not.
Wayne