Grief and Sadness Around Holidays

 

I wrote a post called "Comforting Holiday Plans" at my blog Living With Evidence. It's a personal discussion of grieving during a holiday season. I include these links for people grieving:

• From The Compassionate Friends (UK), for people who have lost a child;
• From AARP (USA), in English and Spanish; and

• In The Washington Post.

With a giant hug to everyone with any kind of deep heartache now.

Hilda Bastian

December 2022

Artwork by my son, Adam. Explanation from my post:

This heart warms my heart. It’s from a card my son made me. I don’t remember how young Adam was then, but this labor of love for his mother is now a very long way over two decades old. The heart, so carefully drawn and cut out, is attached to the handmade black card by a paper chain, engineering a pop-out effect. So special! I don’t remember the occasion – it just says “Ich liebe meine Mutter” inside, but that’s handy now: It can serve as a conduit to his love at any time. So this dear little card is doing Christmas duty.