Baby Blue Shoes
April 25, 2024 1 Comment8th October 2019 Megan Devine Writing Prompt inviting us to pick an “ordinary” item and begin writing, “I remember”. I remember your first pair of shoes. Real shoes for walking. Tried on in a proper shoe shop. Designed to support your baby feet while you learned to walk on two legs not four, and to […]
Read MoreWrite & Wrong
April 25, 2024 No Comments7 October 2019 Megan Devine inviting us to respond to John O’Donohue’s poem “For Grief” Write & Wrong: There’s Nothing Quite Like a bit of Black and White Thinking Megan Devine is quite right. Sometimes John O’Donohue writes right, and sometimes he writes wrong. Plain wrong. Irritatingly. Infuriatingly wrong. What is he on? To write […]
Read MoreThe Grief See-Saw Roundabout
April 25, 2024 No Comments6 October 2019 Writing Prompt from Megan Devine: What’s it like to experience that deep kind of connection or love, and then shift back again into pain? I have in my mind’s eye one of those playground attractionsA blend of a see-saw and a roundaboutThey actually do existI have been on at least one – […]
Read MoreHow Would You Love Me In This, Julia?
April 25, 2024 No Comments3rd October 2019 Megan Devine Writing Your Grief prompt inviting us to borrow love; to see ourselves through the eyes of the one we have lost, and imagine how they would tend to us in our pain. How would you love me in this, Julia? If I imagine you speaking, if I imagine you loving […]
Read MoreAnd Then What Happened?
April 25, 2024 No Comments2 October 2019 Megan Devine Prompt from Writing Your Grief Course inviting us to imagine what happens at the moment of death, and to speak in the voice of the person we lost. We had a poem, “The Wild Iris” by American Poet Louise Gluck as a starting point, from which I chose a starting […]
Read MoreBaby Doll
April 25, 2024 2 Comments1st October 2019 Hastily typed-up notes on awakening this morning Waking suddenly just now at 5h18 after another shockingly interrupted and bad night’s sleep. In my dream I was in a bus and a baby-ish version of Julia was lying down next to me. She had taken her life and so was dead but she […]
Read MoreMore Remembering and Forgetting
April 25, 2024 2 Comments1st October 2019 Way too-close for comfort image courtesy of Sarah Treanor @ streanor.com Megan Devine WYG prompt using this passage from Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road” as a jumping off point: “Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever,” he said. “You might want to think about that.”“You forget some […]
Read MoreRemembering – and Forgetting – Dates
April 25, 2024 No CommentsImage courtesy of Sarah Treanor @ streanor.com Megan Devine Prompt from WYG course asking us to reflect on the experience of first noticing when we are not counting every single day since our person died…. 30 September 2019 As I type down the date just now, it screams back at me. SCREAMS! 30th of the […]
Read MoreMusical Moments
April 25, 2024 No Comments29 September 2019 A contribution to Soaring Spirits Widow’s Voice Blog – 1 October 2019 I am a new guest writer here on Soaring Spirits. I do realise that it’s a site for Widowed people. I am widowed. My husband Mike died of pancreatic cancer on 8th April 2017. He was 53. It feels like […]
Read MoreWhat I Wish for You
April 25, 2024 No Comments30 September 2019 Megan Devine Writing Your Grief Prompt using John O’Donohue’s Poem Beannacht/Blessing as a jumping off point A Blessing to my Friends in a World Ravaged by Loss As the weight of your grief crushes your shouldersI wish that a friend with magically strong and agile fingers comes to youTo probe, release and […]
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