Proust's condolence letter to de Lauris, is the most profound, yet true, words I have seen written about the loss of one's mother and I feel the need to share them with whomever will listen because losing your mother is common to all of us and Proust doesn't just say, "you'll get better with time" as most people do. He admits you will NEVER get over it and yet there is a pleasure in the loss that admitting how you feel will help you to remember her for all time. Letter from Proust to Georges de Lauris, whose mother had just died (1907) Now there is one thing I can tell you: you will enjoy certain pleasures you would not fathom now. When you still had your mother you often thought of the days when you would have her no longer. Now you will often think of days past when you had her. When you are used to this horrible thing that they will be forever cast into the past, then you will gently feel her revive, returning to take her place, her entire place, ...
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9/21/2010 Dream
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I don't often remember my dreams so when I do, they are usually so fun and funny and exciting that I like to write about them as possible future story lines for my writing. They are usually so bizarre that I would have to do a SciFi Genre in order to get away with the outlandish plots! Here's the dream I had on 9/21/10: I was with someone famous, a character in a movie or TV, and we were friends with Dexter. All of us were staying in a hotel somewhere and Dexter comes into the room when we are all asleep and I'm terrified that he's going to kill me and whoever lover-boy is in the bed with me. I'm so scared I wake my guy up. Maybe Dexter is my BF and I'm sleeping with this other guy and I'm afraid Dexter will kill us both. We live through the night, somehow and it feels like we are in Vegas.
My Sister Penelope
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My sister, Penelope, aka Penny, is my anchor in life. She's the first person I turn to in a crisis. She's always been there for me from as long as I can remember. She took me out with her on dates and god forbid if the guys weren't nice to me and she even forgave me for giving her friends the chicken pox on her 15 th or 16 th birthday/slumber party. I truly don't know what life would be without her, nor do I want to know, but if I could save her from having to experience losing me, or any of our family, I would do so in an instant. She's so intuitive and wise where I am oblivious and even naïve and we share the misfortune of many illnesses and diseases and I don't think there's anyone in this world who understands what it feels like to deal with what she and I call, “these bodies” but each other. She's the most generaous person I know and she'd give me her last dollar if I needed it. She's such a fantastic daughter and she took such gr...