To Forgive is Not a Verb: A reflection and Sawbonna “Out beyond ideas of wrong-doing and right-doing there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.” Rumi In my book about grief and spousal loss, I talk about unfinished business and …
Month: September 2020
How we fell asleep I told you how my other lover had died how he had held me until he couldn’t and for a while his warm body was still familiar in my arms until, of course, death stiffened it and they laid a cooling element under what we still called him, but wasn’t. …
My book can be preordered from Routledge via this link: https://www.routledge.com/Writing-the-Self-in-Bereavement-A-Story-of-Love-Spousal-Loss-and-Resilience/Lengelle/p/book/9780367643348 “As human beings, we seek a life story we can make sense of, and that can make sense of us. In this autoethnography of loss, as lucid as it is captivating, Reinekke Lengelle not only reveals but also reflects candidly on her grief over …