Monthly Archive: September 2016

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I wailed once

I wailed once. Just once. You see, I was a happy, smiley, bouncy baby. A contented child. A teenager who’d been brought up to believe that feelings could not be trusted and therefore could...

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Learning to lament

Everyone experiences loss. That much is clear. But how each one of us expresses loss is different. It’s a cultural thing. We are taught how to deal with loss by our parents, our friends,...

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Lamentations

Lamentations. Not a word we really use in the Western world today. Lamentations: noun 1. acts of lamenting or expressing grief. 2. Lamentations, (used with a singular verb) a book of the Bible, traditionally...