Once again, your essay makes me think we are living parallel lives. NICU, teenaged boy without a dad, finding a path and graduating Summa. I almost cried reading this.
What struck me most, however, is how you insisted on a future. I was so traumatized that imagining a life without Adam was simply impossible. So I just let it be. Que sera, sera. I still have trouble making plans, thinking about where I might be this time next year.
I am not an ambitious person. My people and caring for them are the most important things to me. Because of this and that, over the 13 years since Adam died I have lost uncountable relationships that were important to me, with a concentration of losses from 2021-2022 that almost broke me and found me having to fashion a new life for myself.
I admire your forward-thinking, tenacity, optimism. Will use it as an example for myself.
"So, after imagination fuels us into action, the second requisite is that we stay open." I really needed this reminder today. Congratulations to Connor!
Love the relationship between imagination and openness - to marry our capacity to dream with life's intention to serve and support us be the fullest expression of our beautiful hearts
Congratulations to Connor, and congratulations to you, Sue. Knowing you through your beautiful writing, I’m certain that it was the strength of BOTH of you that helped to propel Connor to this next stage of life. It sounds like he is bound for wonderful things. May the Universe hold him gently in the palm of its guiding hand.
Once again, your essay makes me think we are living parallel lives. NICU, teenaged boy without a dad, finding a path and graduating Summa. I almost cried reading this.
What struck me most, however, is how you insisted on a future. I was so traumatized that imagining a life without Adam was simply impossible. So I just let it be. Que sera, sera. I still have trouble making plans, thinking about where I might be this time next year.
I am not an ambitious person. My people and caring for them are the most important things to me. Because of this and that, over the 13 years since Adam died I have lost uncountable relationships that were important to me, with a concentration of losses from 2021-2022 that almost broke me and found me having to fashion a new life for myself.
I admire your forward-thinking, tenacity, optimism. Will use it as an example for myself.
"So, after imagination fuels us into action, the second requisite is that we stay open." I really needed this reminder today. Congratulations to Connor!
Beautiful! My heart is swelling next to yours.
Congratulations to Connor and to you, Mom. Excellent essay, Sue.Thank you.
Love the relationship between imagination and openness - to marry our capacity to dream with life's intention to serve and support us be the fullest expression of our beautiful hearts
Congratulations to Connor, and congratulations to you, Sue. Knowing you through your beautiful writing, I’m certain that it was the strength of BOTH of you that helped to propel Connor to this next stage of life. It sounds like he is bound for wonderful things. May the Universe hold him gently in the palm of its guiding hand.
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