Status Updates From عام التفكير السحري

We try to keep the dead alive in order to keep them with us. There comes a time we need to let them go.

Nothing the author or the deceased could have done would have saved him. He inherited a bad heart.

There’s no one to answer or talk back. C. S. Lewis said “grief feels like suspense. It comes from the frustration from the many impulses that come habitually. Now the target is gone.”

Waste. “Is that what we had done? Why didn’t I listen when he said we weren’t having any fun?”

It takes the average widow several years to gain her former life satisfaction. The author asks “Am I the average widow?”

Episcopalians TAKE communion. Catholics RECEIVE communion. It’s a difference in attitude. (What do I do?)