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RE: Re: [Grief_Group] Re: A Year of Magical Thinking

well I'm thankful you're on the mend, typing and doing other things and that the dr. is pleased with your progress.
 
I'm going to have to go to a specialist for my knee which is really bothering me. Sadly, it only really hurts when I'm working it out good (Patient: Dr. it only hurts when I do this...   Dr.: Well then don't do that). I say sadly because running is when I pray and playing basketball is my mental release--I haven't been able to do that lately and I can really feel it in my soul.
 
God's Yellow Pages:
 
John

"bchile@..." <bchile@...> wrote:
Been doing ok...sorry haven't posted much lately.   I was one handed(luckily right handed) for 10 days after having hand surgery and just got the stitches out last Friday so am getting to remember how to type two handed again.   After a while it just wore me out doing everything one handed as I live alone so I just put off doing some things like typing much.   The hand is doing well and the dr. was well pleased with the healing last Friday so it will come back totally within about a month.

Betty



"Hugging is a means of getting two people so close together that they 
can't see anything wrong with each other"   ....Author Unknown



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From    : J Hum[mailto:jhum07@yahoo.com]
Sent    : 10/16/2006 12:32:33 PM
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Subject : RE: Re: [Grief_Group] Re: A Year of Magical Thinking

 Hi Betty,
  Great to hear from you.
   
  I was wondering if this site was in trouble participation-w ise?
   
  I'll check out that book online and if I read it, I'll comment on it. Thanks for sharing Betty. I'm glad you have a few people that you're that close with. Yes, it can make grieving easier to go through it with people we're close with. It's also wonderful to be that person for others.
   
  I hope you're doing well.
   
  A little fun below...
   
  John
   
  

Betty <bchile@midwaynet.net> wrote:
          
Thanks for y our comments on this book. I have seen the review of 
it and have thought of getting it to read as my local library has 
it. I may pick it up this week.

On the same vein as talking books I wanted to pass along a note on a 
book my pastor spoke about yesterday that sounds good and would 
certainly change how people deal with life and loss, etc. It's by 
Dr. Will Miller who is a pastor/counselor and used to be a stand up 
comedian and is called "Refrigerator Rights". It's about how we,  ;
as a society, have given us our relationships that have refrigerator 
rights in our lives...those relationships that are so close that we 
could walk into each other's house and help ourself to whatever was 
in the refrigerator and no one would think a thing of it. How 
we've let the high tech things, internet, jobs, too busy a life, 
all foster our isolating ourselves and not allowing time in our 
lives for "refrigerator rights" relationships...people we can just 
be ourselves around and who are there in the good&nb sp;and hard times of 
life without having to ask. People we are willing to just be there 
for and who are there for us. I plan to get the book and read it 
for myself but I thought of those who grieve who have a hard time 
asking for help and thought if we had these relationships like I 
remember being so common when I was a kid(heck...we were always 
having friends over for dinner or going to friends houses at the 
drop of a hat invitation)...if we had these relationships in place 
then&n bsp;maybe the grieving process wouldn't be so hard as there would 
be someone there to support us thru it without our having to ask. 
I am blessed as I sat in church sunday as the pastor spoke of it and 
silently named 2-3 people whom I have that type of relationship with 
yet I thought...how many more could I have and could I be that kind 
of friend to. It's a thought.

Betty

--- In Grief_Group@yahoogroups.com, J Hum <jhum07@...> wrote:
>
> Greetings Friends,
> I was given a book to read&nb sp;by a dear friend whose husband died 
of ALS. Joan Didion's book A Year or Magical Thinking chronicles the 
year following her husband's sudden death. In late 2003, their 
daughter was hospitalized in the ICU with a life-threatening 
illness. After a day at the hospital, the couple went home, made a 
fire and prepared dinner. As they sat to supper, Didion's husband of 
40 years had a heart attack and died. He had a heart history, but it 
was sudden, unexpected and during a difficult time because of their 
daught er's condition.
> Didion's an author by vocation, and it's obvious 
reading her book she's well versed in a number of literary genre's, 
but the prose doesn't dominate—her grief experience does. As with 
C.S. Lewis' grief classic A Grief Observed, Didion walks the reader 
through her year of inconsolable grief; she documents the things 
that matter (caring for her daughter whose health goes from bad to 
worse), tries to discard the things that don't matter—or do matter 
but require too much energy for her emotionally spent conditi on—and 
tries, as grievers do, to just try and keep moving forward.
> Didion spent every day with her husband. They worked 
together, ate together, vacationed together, and, well, did 
everything together all the time. So for her, it was difficult to 
determine where they ended and she began. A Year or Magical Thinking 
takes the reader through the painful experience of assessing 
relationships in a loss context, the intricate web of family ritual 
and tradition, and the sheer pain and confusion of losing a loved 
one.
> nbsp;My recommendation for reading this book is both for 
those that have recently lost a loved one (and may be going through 
your year of magical thinking), and for those farther along in the 
grief process to look back and see how "normal" the pain, confusion 
and turmoil of that first year was. One of the things we try to do 
here is to say you're not alone in this difficult journey. Didion's 
book is not a clinical assessment of grief. It's the painful, daily 
grind that makes up the first year of  grief.
> I'm including a web site listing reviews of Didion's 
book if you're interested 
(www.reviewsofbooks.com/year_of_magical_thinking/). I you've read 
this book or others like it, please take a moment and comment on 
things that might have been helpful or even things that maybe 
weren't as helpful.

> God's blessing on your day.

> John


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Greetings Friends, I was given a book to read by a dear friend whose husband died of ALS. Joan Didion’s book A Year or Magical Thinking chronicles the year...
J Hum
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Thanks for your comments on this book. I have seen the review of it and have thought of getting it to read as my local library has it. I may pick it up...
Betty
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Hi Betty, Great to hear from you. I was wondering if this site was in trouble participation-wise? I'll check out that book online and if I read it, I'll...
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Oct 16, 2006
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Been doing ok...sorry haven't posted much lately. I was one handed(luckily right handed) for 10 days after having hand surgery and just got the stitches out...
bchile@...
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well I'm thankful you're on the mend, typing and doing other things and that the dr. is pleased with your progress. I'm going to have to go to a...
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