FAM, we get it. These are some tough days, the toughest that we have ever lived through and are collectively experiencing. The COVID-19 pandemic is the most serious public health emergency the world has seen in the last 100 years.
Some of us are feeling despair, anger, frustration, sadness, and some of us are just numb. Either way, we have all lost greatly and are struggling to cope with our grief. In this video, Sharin talks about the 4 books that are helping her grieve. The process will remain WIP, but she, like all us perhaps, can only hope to be whole again. See below for quotes and books:
List of Books:
Dark Demon by Christine Feehan
Kindle: amzn.to/3vR3l8m
The Long Goodbye by Meghan O Rourke
Audible: amzn.to/3fMfkhY
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Kindle: amzn.to/3ifsPrU
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
Paperback: amzn.to/3chJBTA
Kindle: amzn.to/3chnwER
100 Selected Poems by Emily Dickinson
Hardcover: amzn.to/3ilv7G3
Kindle: amzn.to/2SUzlKi
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Quotes from The Long Goodbye by Meghan O Rourke:
“The people we most love do become a physical part of us, ingrained in our synapses, in the pathways where memories are created.”
“Nothing prepared me for the loss of my mother. Even knowing that she would die did not prepare me. A mother, after all, is your entry into the world. She is the shell in which you divide and become a life. Waking up in a world without her is like waking up in a world without sky: unimaginable.”
"So much of dealing with a disease is waiting. Waiting for appointments, for tests, for “procedures.” And waiting, more broadly, for it—for the thing itself, for the other shoe to drop."
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Quotes from The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
“ We have no way of knowing that the funeral itself will be anodyne, a kind of narcotic regression in which we are wrapped in the care of others and the gravity and meaning of the occasion. Nor can we know ahead of the fact (and here lies the heart of the difference between grief as we imagine it and grief as it is) the unending absence that follows, the void, the very opposite of meaning, the relentless succession of moments during which we will confront the experience of meaninglessness itself.”
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Verses from I Measure Every Grief I Meet by Emily Dickinson
I measure every grief I meet
With analytic eyes;
I wonder if it weighs like mine,
Or has an easier size.
I wonder if they bore it long,
Or did it just begin?
I could not tell the date of mine,
It feels so old a pain.
I wonder if it hurts to live,
And if they have to try,
And whether could they choose between,
They would not rather die.
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Edited by: Yohann Benson
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