“Rebirth is almost impossible without the darkness.....I tell myself I am experiencing the death of myself as mother, the death of myself as a younger woman -- precious old lives going by the wayside. Of course, I should let myself grieve. To deny the grief is to squander a transforming and radiant possibility.” ShouldMotherCoursesGriefDarknessImpossiblePossibilityDenyGrievingRebirthTransformingRadiantOld Life Author:Sue Monk Kidd
“in coming to terms with the newly dead, I seem to have agitated the spirits of the long dead. They were stirring uneasily in their graves, demanding to be mourned as I had not mourned them when they were buried. I was plunged into retroactive grief for my father, and could no longer deny, though I still tried, the loss I'd suffered at the death of my mother. ... Was it possible ... that one could mourn over losses that had occurred more than half a century earlier?” LongStillsSeemsSpiritMotherFatherTermLossGriefHalfCenturyDenyGravesBuriedMournStirringHalf A Century Author:Eileen Simpson