We never know how our lives are going to turn out. We think we know this, and yet how often do we live without paying sufficient heed to the reality of this, thinking that we actually have control over what we plan to do? Last week saw our wider family suddenly and very unexpectedly experiencing…
How do we go through sadness well?
Last week I was musing here about the sadness experienced in this house, as in many across the country, at our Elder Nearest-and-Dearest leaving home for university. Sadness is an important emotion, and it is there for a reason. We can’t go over it or under it, we have got to go through it (to…
Sadness: got to go through it
Sadness. Can’t go over it, can’t go under it, got to go through it. This has been the refrain running through my head since we deposited Elder Nearest-and-Dearest at her University halls at the weekend. Many, many parents across the country have been doing similar rite-of-passage journeys. For us, the distance is a mere 50…