Anne wore moccasins and tiptoed toward eternity Stricken with the storm no hands could lift, Anne moved softly through the narrowing room of days. Brain cancer dimmed the lamps one by one, yet still she wore her beloved moccasins, as if the earth itself might remember her feet. She tiptoed toward eternity without fanfare, past..
Thoughts I have discovered Lucien:Thoughts on Facebook. These snippets so often express what I am experiencing in the darkness of my grief. Your friend, Robert https://robertmcbrydeauthor.com/ If you feel like reading more about Anne’s cancer journey, I’ve chronicled it in prose and poetry here: https://robertmcbrydeauthor.com/news/
Miracles never cease Today is our 46th wedding anniversary. Aujourd’hui, c’est notre 46e anniversaire de mariage. The short vignette that follows tells the story of our wedding. La courte vignette qui suit raconte l’histoire de notre mariage. La version française suit la version anglaise. On August 30, 1980, Anne and I got married..
Expiring like a quivering, vulnerable bird in the dawn’s grey I have become obsessed with how Anne died, three months ago, quivering, vulnerable, like a stricken bird. This little poem is intended to honour her. It is presented on a Haiga background. https://www.graceguts.com/haiga I find it soothing and therapeutic to concoct these..
Your memory has become a treasure “When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure.” Author unknown “The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief – But the pain of grief is only a shadow when compared with the pain of never risking love.” Hillary..
Jim Carrey on Grief Grief is not just an emotion – it’s an unraveling, a space where something once lived but is now gone. It carves through you, leaving a hollow ache where love once resided. In the beginning, it feels unbearable, like a wound that will never close. But over time, the raw..
Geno Lewis: Scoring a touchdown for compassion (revisited) https://www.cfl.ca/2026/08/02/redblacks-release-receiver-eugene-lewis/ Responding to the above press release of August 2, 2026 A letter to the editor of the Ottawa Citizen newspaper The Ottawa Redblacks have certainly been experiencing a miserable season on the gridiron, but they’ve scored big points in so many other ways. My..
Facing the yawning abyss of solitude in the fall of my life It was a beautiful fall day in early October, 2023, when Anne and I were still living in Dijon, France. We were heading for Mâcon for a day trip, on a local train destined for Lyon. The train was an old..
The unrelenting brutality of grief and the pervasive pall of mourning The verse that emerges in these clumsy attempts at Haiga creation is often bleak, reflecting the unrelenting brutality of grief and the pervasive pall of mourning. Haiga is a Japanese concept describing a refined visual art of combining brush painting, Haiku,and calligraphy. A traditional..
Unsafe at any speed revisited I’m a horrible driver; I’ve always been a horrible driver. This deficiency is in my DNA: behind the proverbial wheel, my father was unsafe at any speed and my mother was beyond a shadow of a doubt the worst driver in history. (Various friends and relatives wanted to sue the..