by Benjamin Allen | Jun 24, 2014 | reflections on grief, reflections on grief recovery, reintegration after loss
I read your words from a distance and they land deep within me. I do not know the sound of your voice, but I know the sound of your sorrow. We echo across a torn land with the anguish of torn lives. You have lost someone dear and I know the dearness of loss. I cry...
by Benjamin Allen | Jun 23, 2014 | reflections on grief, reflections on grief recovery, reintegration after loss
I don’t know, but I know loss colors everything. Loss shades every aspect of my life. I live a kaleidoscope of moments and in each one there are the shifting colors laced in loss. A beautiful sunset paints the sky and somewhere in the majesty there is that part of me...
by Benjamin Allen | Jun 21, 2014 | reflections on grief, reflections on grief recovery, reintegration after loss
She would have been a lot of things, but she isn’t. The one thing she is is she’s not forgotten. This week I have been out of sorts, a little off center. Things have been just a little out of focus. I have had a low-grade anxiety that something is off kilter. These...
by Benjamin Allen | Jun 20, 2014 | reflections on grief, reflections on grief recovery, reintegration after loss
How do I hold on to love and let go of the pain? Is it possible to separate the two? I hold a photograph and it takes me to a place of deep warmth in memory. I remember the moment with tenderness, with gratitude, with love. Looking up from the photo, I am here. The...
by Benjamin Allen | Jun 18, 2014 | reflections on grief, reflections on grief recovery, reintegration after loss
The missing parts of me have gone missing. Hopes and dreams have disappeared. I wanted so much for them. I had not realized how much more I wanted for me, too. When they say life goes on I take it to mean graduations will take place and my children won’t be there....
