Thrive in the deep waters“Life changes force us into the deep water. Death forces us into deep
Thrive in the deep waters“Life changes force us into the deep water. Death forces us into deeper waters. Call the roll of losses in your own family. I salute both my stalwart grandmothers and both my sisters, who as widows grew to be at home in and, eventually, through grace and strength, to thrive in the deep waters. My cousin Patsy and her daughters still reel from the shock of the accident that killed husband and father Charles McGee on a balmy April evening, just before dusk. None of us can believe it yet. [My daughter] Jennifer reshapes her life as she copes with her father’s illness and death. I feel twice-widowed. I lost him to divorce. I lost him to death. My father is dead. My mother died last spring. This is drama, but this is not a play. There is no dress rehearsal. We have no script. We don’t know the lines. We have to make them up as we go. We have to perform them live, on the spot, no chance to go back and start from the top. What will we do? How will we stand? The questions haunt us as we bear the unbearable, and lead us, unbidden, often dragging our feet, to new depths—to new chapters of life.”— Penelope Niven, Swimming Lessons(Photograph by John Lockwood. Thank you, Mr. Lockwood and Unsplash.) -- source link
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