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What do You do When Grief Takes Over?

August 10, 2020 By Leave a Comment

I remember when my mother was dying. I was getting ready for my orals in graduate school and the one thing I What do You do When Grief Takes Over?couldn’t have imagined, since all mothers are invincible, is that my healthy, vivacious, 83-year-old, artist mother would die.

Time stood still as the nurse put me through to her hospital room.

Only, the woman who answered Continue Reading

How Do You Stop Grief, Illness, or Loss From Upstaging Your Art? Should You?

July 31, 2020 By Leave a Comment

How Do You Stop Grief, Illness, or Loss From Upstaging Your Art

I suspect this question is so deeply personal that it’s like a fingerprint: each of us will respond from the life conditions that have shaped each of us, and shape us still.

There is strong folklore about the value of the suffering artist to her art; that dark times allow for greatness. Personally, I’m not so sure it’s a useful way to look at suffering.

I suspect some of us are Continue Reading

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