Glimmers
Weekly newsletter on my challenges, losses, joys, grumbles, wins and most importantly, the glimmers that get me through.
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TED (opens the original)
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Back to School (opens the original)
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Middling with my Grief Gremlin (opens the original)
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I have two articles in my draft posts. One about Ted, my lovely old lurcher boy, best friend, soul brother and shadow, who we sadly had to put to final rest just three weeks ago now. It will take time. A tribute to such legendary epic-ness comes easy, but not quickly and deserves my time and my tears. The other is a post about endometriosis which gets more complex by the day right now. Both my kids have been diagnosed recently - aged 21 and 18. It is a painful, invasive, life changing condition
Cracked! (opens the original)
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There’s a push and pull in grief. I’ve always felt life pulling me forward even when the loss and devastation was new and fresh in the early days and weeks after he died. I’d say I was driven almost to make sure I made it good and juicy and full on John’s behalf, as if by doing so I would somehow do him an honour. And I stand by that, but now I do so knowing that it is not without it’s flip side of sadness and longing, and I have discovered recently, guilt. I’ve researched and the closest thing
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