…………………………………………………………………………………………………. writers’ musings: ……………………’narrative becomes montage’……………………….. ……………………………………………………………………………………………….. LOVE AFTER LOVE Oh yes. He says it splendidly, Derek Walcott, in his poem titled: LOVE AFTER LOVE. Don’t forget - I am a widow. I am in lockstep with the man, with his poem about love after love. He is expressing what I have come upon, come towards. Someone, someone like Jung, one of those 20th century psychological thinkers, said: ‘When all else fails, there is the self.’
“You have no concept
Until it asks
What it
Asks
Of you…..”
Lovely. You are complete in your aloneness the way someone learns to live without a limb. Phantom pain comes and goes. But you are still what you had.
thank you... I'm just mining the experience. I'll move on to other things...
I'm really affirmed by your close attention - thank you, dear.
You are once again tugging at my heartstrings with your fine writing Judith. This time, I worry that it may come unraveled. xxxxx
I've taken the deep dive into widowhood. there are other aspects of life, MY life, too!
watch this space!!
Doors open when the moment is right
Sometimes we just need the courage to step through. You did and 60 years later here you are. Looking forward to seeing you soon.
Keep the words coming. Xx
SOON!!!
absolutely looking forward....!!
Beautifully put as always Judith!! Thanks so much for sharing.. so much love to you x
and thank you as always. (I miss you!)
Always always, your writing fills me up nicely. Thanks again
so happy about that.xx
Judith, although I am not at this moment in my life, your words ring so beautifully, achingly true. I love your writing!
Rabbi Hillel, great Jewish scholar/thinker/guru: "If I am not for myself, who will be for me?"
Derrick Wolcott
And you.
Thanks to all
that slippery slope! looking out for ME w/o slipping into the nutty narcissism of so very many! you know them and I know them! xx