{"id":913,"date":"2005-09-26T11:33:56","date_gmt":"2005-09-26T18:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kattywilly.com\/blog\/?p=913"},"modified":"2005-09-26T11:33:56","modified_gmt":"2005-09-26T18:33:56","slug":"from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/?p=913","title":{"rendered":"From"},"content":{"rendered":"

From
\nan article yesterday’s NY Times by Joan Didion.<\/a><\/p>\n

“Grief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it. We
\nanticipate (we know) that someone close to us could die, but we do not
\nlook beyond the few days or weeks that immediately follow such an
\nimagined death. We misconstrue the nature of even those few days or
\nweeks. We might expect if the death is sudden to feel shock. We do not
\nexpect this shock to be obliterative, dislocating to both body and mind.
\nWe might expect that we will be prostrate, inconsolable, crazy with
\nloss. We do not expect to be literally crazy, cool customers who believe
\nthat their husband is about to return. In the version of grief we
\nimagine, the model will be “healing.” A certain forward movement will
\nprevail. The worst days will be the earliest days. We imagine that the
\nmoment to most severely test us will be the funeral, after which this
\nhypothetical healing will take place.”<\/p>\n

There are many images and experiences in her article that perfectly
\ndescribe the experience and feelings that one goes through after the
\nloss of a spouse. I wish I could write so I could describe these feelings.<\/p>\n

I have linked to the article but I’m sure that it will go behind the
\nPayWall soon and become inaccessible and lost to those who might gain
\nsome comfort and insight from reading it. I will never understand the
\ndesire by those who publish to prevent people from
\nreading\/listening\/seeing those things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From an article yesterday’s NY Times by Joan Didion. “Grief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it. We anticipate (we know) that someone close to us could die, but we do not look … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}