Comments on: FACING GRIEF – The universe is dancing

By: Jimmi Piran

Jimmi Piran — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:48:32 +0000

Hi Corinne, very nice poem. Hard to follow for my low lever english, but it sounds very good

By: liuz Einsamkeit

liuz Einsamkeit — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:12:18 +0000

Well,

Short sentences, good rythm, i like this one,
In this time of financial crises arround our world, we all forget to take a dance!

Nice..

By: Corinne

Corinne — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:06:05 +0000

Junie said -

Love this poem. Remember vividly that you recited it at Dad’s funeral.

By: Corinne

Corinne — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:03:09 +0000

Dear Liara -

I loved this part of your comment -

“Everyone gets up to dance, but does not always acknowledge the reasons why.”

I don’t like to plan too far ahead. You just gave me the ideal excuse!

Thanks for your wonderful comment, Liara.

By: Liara Covert

Liara Covert — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 03:21:42 +0000

We are each deeply engaged in a dance of life. This may be viewed as a shamanic healing dance that the soul knows well. Everyone gets up to dance, but does not always acknowledge the reasons why. Life is about rediscovering reasons for joy. Every person has them, creates them and will know again.

By: Corinne

Corinne — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:56:02 +0000

Dear Lily Rose -

Regarding your statement -

“it makes me wonder what people will write about me.”

I think people will write that there was nothing you missed! You lived life fully and with huge enthusiasm -

true compassion to all -

and strong opinions on everything.

That’s the most interesting thing about you!

We never have to ask, “Lily Rose, how do you really feel about this?”

I love your comments on my blog!

By: Corinne

Corinne — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:51:02 +0000

Dear Reed -

You bring up an important point in your thoughtful comment.

Although grief and depression sometimes manifest in similar ways, they are different.

I don’t think a clinically depressed person can be helped by telling them to snap out of it. It is a medical problem.

As Patricia said, when you are grieving, it helps to move a little – just to get started in life again.

When you are ready -

By: Corinne

Corinne — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:45:54 +0000

Dear Patricia – (and Design your own t shirt)

You hit on the key to it. We have to keep moving. And as you said, Patricia, sometimes ever so slowly.

When we encounter a large and important loss, the inclination is to sink. It is a form of paralysis.

Some of that is good – we must mourn – but it can become toxic. We become reclusive. And many people stay that way. I had a neighbor who lost her son and she did not speak to anyone for five yesrs. If you said hello, she did not answer. She never recovered.

By: Corinne

Corinne — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:36:49 +0000

Thanks, Chris. Missed you. Nice to have your on board again!
You are right. It is hard to do.
See some of my other replies.

By: Lily Rose

Lily Rose — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 02:08:45 +0000

Corinne, I was so privileged to be with you in person and in spirit many times during Arlene’s last year and I shall never forget that lovely Mother’s Day when I was in a sun-filled and Spring flowered park in Saratoga Springs and I got a message from you on my cell phone that Arlene had passed. I could put myself there right now. You are healing more and more every day doing the little things we all do while moving through grief, putting the pictures away, finally deleting the phone number, etc. Healing (which means to beome whole again) takes time – whatever time you need. I think it’s very important for you to write about this – it makes me wonder what people will write about me. I sure know what I will write about you – what I called you the other day — a blesed aberration. Or a one-of-a-kind piece. Bless you.