Comments on: Understatement can speak volumes

By: Eve

Eve — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:06:34 +0000

Rae, I’m sorry for your loss. My grandmothers were my two most favorite people, and I learned so much about love from them. I miss them both terribly even now, 30 years after they’ve died. So I can empathize with how you must feel, and I’m sorry.

By: carrien

carrien — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 07:42:18 +0000

sob

That little snippet feels a bit like wrapping a warm blanket around my shoulders on a cold night. It’s warm and comforting, and even restful, even in it’s bittersweetness.

By: gwendomama

gwendomama — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:16:10 +0000

that was a beautiful snippet.

By: gretchen from lifenut

gretchen from lifenut — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 02:33:37 +0000

Oh, Rae. I am sorry. I just got back into town from a short vacation and read the news about your dear grandma.

Your grandma sounds like a treasure. You will miss her. I am sorry, again.

By: menaka/melissa

menaka/melissa — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 23:42:30 +0000

i just arrived in the wack to visit my grandma and parents, having lapsed on your ever flowing blog and life’s writings, i am feeling a deeper sense of gratitude and appreciation of this thyme, i will probably be knitting with my granny tomorrow, it and the children are the threads we hold as our life is quite complex in comparisson to my elders, what a blessed gift of an experience to be loved and charished by our mothers and their mothers,
There is no question that she lives on in you and your children, and her children and her husband, it is darling to see that you are so in tune with her spirit,
a big hug to you from me, i know it is not an easy experience to live through so much passing at once whilst you are opening a new chapter to your life, the pain is the best part to let go of, the end of suffering feels like a bittersweet reward, the memories and life will live on forever and ever,
lots of love and peace blowing your way from here,
i hope you get to lay down in a field of flowers and breathe the love that surrounds you
namaste dear sister

By: mamatulip

mamatulip — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:22:25 +0000

Oh, I am so sorry. I just caught up on your posts — you felt the same way about your grandmother that I felt about mine – she passed away unexpectedly last October. She grounded me, too.

Thinking of you. Sending you comfort and peace.

By: kelly

kelly — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:07:37 +0000

Rae, I’m catching up after a week or so away…sending long-distance hugs to you and all of yours around you. So sorry for all of this loss, too much to hold in two soft hands.

and extra hugs, too…

By: Joy M.

Joy M. — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:05:57 +0000

Rae Rae- When you write of your Grandmother, your writing voice becomes like a child’s, even when you use the word “petulantly.” (A very grownup word for describing something childish.) I’m guessing it was not only the content of the tales of your children that kept your Grandmother so enraptured, but the teller of the tales too. Like the way you can’t let yourself cut Kae off when he launches into telling you a long something at the wrong moment because you find him so stinking dear. Have a good hearty grieving with lots of thankfulness woven in. I trust that you will be well attended to.

By: shauna

shauna — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:54:44 +0000

I’m crying. I love grandmas.

By: blackbird

blackbird — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:44:11 +0000

Grandmothers are really good at calling you dear.