We’re beginning to understand the sudden ‘grief attacks’ that hit mourners A few years ago, psychologist Sherman Lee experienced a “grief attack”. When he set out to study them, he discovered just how powerful and all-consuming grief can be. Grief profoundly affects the body and mind. Once, while driving his car, Sherman Lee started sobbing..
Anne: her quirkiness was next to godliness Anne was indeed a character! She practically memorized all the novels of Jane Austen, having devoured them, like she came to gobble hospital meatloaf, dozens of times per year. In fact, Anne also memorized huge chunks of poetry and prose in the course of her lifetime, including “The..
Today is Rare Cancer Day Glioblastoma (GBM) is considered a rare form of cancer overall, even though it is the most common and aggressive type of malignant primary brain tumor in adults. Glioblastoma affects approximately 3 in every 100,000 people each year. The typical post- diagnosis life expectancy is 12 to 18 months. My sweet,..
The real reason that we returned to Canada: My wife Anne missed Simons too much to remain in France For many more images, please click here: https://robertmcbrydeauthor.com/the-real-reason-that-we-returned-to-canada-my-wife-anne-missed-simons-too-much-to-remain-in-france/ In spring of 2024, barely two years before my late wife Anne was stricken with glioblastoma, a lethal form of brain cancer, we returned to Canada after..
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/
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..
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..
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..