Loss
Listening to Ed Sheeran. Small Bump will come on in a minute. It doesn’t make me cry. It makes me sob. There are only a few people whose art has ever been able to express how I actually feel over losing Ella. It’s a growing […]
Month: April 2013
The Singing Never Will Be Done
What do you write when you have so much to say, but feel there’s no way to express it? This is how I felt last night, and for parts of today. The dizziness returned this afternoon, and I’ve just spent a while reading the news […]
Noticing Grief
24th April today. 2013. Not a significant date for me, and yet I found myself caught out by grief. I read Rob Parson’s latest Care For the Family letter, and it made me cry. The quotation he shared from C. S. Lewis’ A Grief Observed […]
Permission
On 16th January this year I finally realised this: I don’t need the permission of my abusers; they never sought mine. It’s taken me almost another quarter of a year to stand in courage and actually say that to the world. Fear and a lack […]