tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5055598777203654547.post6861120562721752759..comments2024-03-01T06:20:29.087+00:00Comments on qualia and other wildlife: grief and gratituderosellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00971482422276765335noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5055598777203654547.post-68469421718845198712013-12-30T17:40:38.569+00:002013-12-30T17:40:38.569+00:00Miriam, I loved the Hoare. Thank you for drawing m...Miriam, I loved the Hoare. Thank you for drawing my attention to it. Rxrosellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00971482422276765335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5055598777203654547.post-64843984416912710042013-12-30T17:40:06.457+00:002013-12-30T17:40:06.457+00:00Marg, thank you for your companionship and kind co...Marg, thank you for your companionship and kind comments. It means more to me than you might know to know that you're reading these. Hope 2014 brings you all you could wish for - and much creativity. Rxrosellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00971482422276765335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5055598777203654547.post-32442140641762987742013-12-30T16:47:39.860+00:002013-12-30T16:47:39.860+00:00Thank you for your honest blogs during the year. I...Thank you for your honest blogs during the year. I hope you soon feel well enough to get out of bed though at times it's the place to be.<br />love<br /><br />Marg<br />xAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5055598777203654547.post-35968451836099825192013-12-29T14:51:23.788+00:002013-12-29T14:51:23.788+00:00Miriam, thank you - first time in many many years ...Miriam, thank you - first time in many many years I've actually stayed in bed as feeling too ill to do anything else :-(. So we didn't get the Sat paper Guardian as we usually do, but I'll see if Hoare is available online (TM only reads the online version so may have seen it). Thanks for the alert. Back to bed now! Rxrosellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00971482422276765335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5055598777203654547.post-75502111644348498432013-12-29T09:15:13.954+00:002013-12-29T09:15:13.954+00:00PS (Miriam again): Just wondered if you'd seen...PS (Miriam again): Just wondered if you'd seen yesterday's Guardian article by Philip Hoare (p54, broadsheet, Comment&Debate)? Touches on what you say including poignant image of a starling. <br />M.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5055598777203654547.post-34054663776795184342013-12-29T06:52:48.125+00:002013-12-29T06:52:48.125+00:00So interesting, this numbing of feelings. Years ag...So interesting, this numbing of feelings. Years ago I succumbed to anti-depressants at a highly anxious time. At first they calmed me to a strange, rather foreign, serenity and helped me to function better until I realised one day that I couldn't stand the monotony of all the affective blandness. Then I knew I was better, preferring the old see-saw of myself and able at last to accept it, stand back and live with it (though it took years and I'm still not there yet!) Medication seems anathema since then. Now, I welcome these mood changes, am reassured by them and they make me feel human, which isn't to say they're easier to bear, by any means.<br />Roselle, I do empathise with your feelings of mother-loss. Mine went 12.5 years ago and I mourn her gradual fading in my mind, overshadowed by Dad's more recent (2.5 years) death. But we never stop dreaming about them, I think, and maybe they don't actually fade, but simply ease out of view temporarily.<br />It is a strange time this, I agree – no matter your creed or philosophy. The blank page of January beckons – let's hope it brings some renewed creativity for us all. Thanks again for making this online community possible (first coffee just drunk whilst reading this latest – and I do love your painterly description of Dartmoor). With love, Miriam.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5055598777203654547.post-18200573175773461512013-12-28T15:21:57.665+00:002013-12-28T15:21:57.665+00:00Belinda - thank you. It's a strange time, isn&...Belinda - thank you. It's a strange time, isn't it, between Christmas and New Year, when there's a hiatus and we secretly suspect that Others, Elsewhere, are having fun, and we should be too - but also at this time all the things that we hold at bay most of the year can rush in. I'm with Rumi: invite them all in to the guest house of the soul... :-). There's no problem unless we start to identify 'me' with any one of them... Love to you. Rxrosellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00971482422276765335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5055598777203654547.post-52213673951802575402013-12-28T14:06:05.792+00:002013-12-28T14:06:05.792+00:00How is it your blog posts always match what I'...How is it your blog posts always match what I'm thinking?? This time of year, when everything else stops, I always lurch between joy and despair. Love the Joanna Macy quote - I'm only just discovering how liberating it is to acknowledge/allow painful feelings.Mad Englishwomanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11007656187981921211noreply@blogger.com