A couple days ago, I watched a video with Deb Roy, a scientist and MIT Professor, share a project that mapped the early language development of his son.
What you shared here in your painting-of-words helped give a visualization to the experience of losses of all kinds, to better understand them as grief, and why that grief ambushes suddenly, repeatedly, with (in the moment) no predictable pattern. It is that returning to the end of the thread, finding there is no more length, or that the thread has spliced at its end, and one portion is slowly interweaving with another tread, shaping itself into a new pattern within the tapestry that is each of our lives. What a gift it is to have you as a key, enduring thread in my tapestry.
What you shared here in your painting-of-words helped give a visualization to the experience of losses of all kinds, to better understand them as grief, and why that grief ambushes suddenly, repeatedly, with (in the moment) no predictable pattern. It is that returning to the end of the thread, finding there is no more length, or that the thread has spliced at its end, and one portion is slowly interweaving with another tread, shaping itself into a new pattern within the tapestry that is each of our lives. What a gift it is to have you as a key, enduring thread in my tapestry.