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Rebecca Goodall's avatar

Awweee she’s alone on the ride 🥲

Jane Dougherty's avatar

We're living to greater and greater ages, but we're not doing it painlessly. This is so sad, grindingly so.

Breann's avatar

"Her language unflowing"....oh man. Thank you for sharing such a difficult journey.

Rebecca Cook's avatar

Yes, Ian, I can see the shared experience between you and me, and in our poems. It is hard, then I think, this is what living is. This is life.

I wrote a prose piece today about my illness as a baby and then my having a boy with autism.

But this is living, no matter how angry I'm getting with my old father. I need more patience. Do you have any to spare?

Themes and Deviations's avatar

Yeah feeling this. The relentless incremental losses.

Madara Ranmuthugala's avatar

I loved it. I felt it in my bones, because this is what I go through with my mother.

Thank you for this, and for posting on mine and letting me know I am not alone. I had been writing to the void, but your comment was a connection to the world.

Wendy Varley's avatar

Very touched by it all, Ian. Re-reading and misting up again.