How Would You Love Me In This, Julia?
October 20, 2025 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?
October 20, 2025 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
October 20, 2025 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
October 20, 2025 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
October 20, 2025 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
October 20, 2025 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
October 20, 2025 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 […]
Read MoreMoments of Marginally More Looseness
October 20, 2025 No Comments28 September 2019 Invitation from Megan Devine in the WYG course to look for the spaces where things can just be a little looser. “Find those tiny spaces where things loosen just a little. Because they are useful. And they are really important”. Late last night I listened to the soft belly audio that Megan […]
Read MoreMy Bashed Up Heart
October 20, 2025 No Comments26 September 2019 Megan Devine Writing Your Grief prompt asking us to consider the condition of our heart. What is the condition of my heart? My heart is a withered old thing. Deflated. Once strong and firm, now floppy, like a punctured balloon. My heart is reminiscent of a partially deflated rugby ball or football, […]
Read MoreReflecting on the Experience of Writing
October 20, 2025 No Comments26 November 2019 Megan Devine WYG prompt asking us to review the first 14 days of the course… and reflect on what we have learned, noticed, etc As some know, this is my “Round Three” of WYG. Round one I did within weeks of Mike’s death. It felt too soon. I was too bubbly, too […]
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