On Goodbyes

[ahavah]

I said in my intro that I would try not to be bleak, so when I saw our first topic for therealljidol was Saying Goodbye, I tried to just make it not about mom. Lord knows I've had many goodbyes in my life, and a great many of those recently. Somehow, it always comes back to this. In The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion calls it 'the vortex'. I can't even

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[fierceawakening]

I didn't see this when you posted it -- at work, maybe, I don't know -- but it's beautiful.

Love and hugs, dear one.

[fierceawakening]

Oh, it's today... n/m. I thought it was from a week ago and I'd missed it somehow. Bleh.

[ahavah]

Thank you so much! *loves back*

[catku]

very powerful
does writing about it help any?
Because it seems to flow out of you and I don't know if that's because there is so much pain or if you're able to share because you reached a point where it helps.

[ahavah]

Thank you so much! I have actually been having a lot of trouble writing, which is part of why I joined up at LJ Idol to begin with. I did ask mom's help with it, and I mused over it all week before writing. Since this was for a writing competition and not just filtered dumping, I tried to be more conscious about it. I do believe that the time has helped a bit, although I read back and felt that some of my most powerful writing actually happened right there when it was all going on.

[gratefuladdict]

So powerful and true.

[ahavah]

Thank you!

[shadowwolf13]

Beautiful and very moving entry. I look forward to reading more of your entries.

Best of luck in Idol.

[ahavah]

Thank you so very much!

[supremegoddess1]

this was beautiful. thank you for sharing it.

[ahavah]

Thank you so much. I'm glad you think so.