Unattended Sorrow

"I went to a place where my son drowned, 

and I stood with a friend.

And later she said, 'Come on. I'll buy you a journal and you can write. '

And I said no. I started crying. I said I couldn't write.

I've never been able to write in a journal before.

And then, at some point last winter,

when he had been dead six months or so, I began to write.

And it became kind of like automatic writing. It just came out."

 

This is a quote from Anna, 

written by Stephen Levine, in his book "Unattended Sorrow: 

Recovering From Loss and Reviving the Heart."

Rodale Press, USA 2005

Photo taken with the Windflowers at Lambley Nursery,

Ascot, Victoria, March 2023