After 25 years of marriage, June Mantle faced the grief of losing her husband through writing. StarTogether
Page after page overflowing with frustration … the medical system … the pandemic … the ineptitude … the disease itself.So many clambering to help … stumbling clumsily over each other … social workers, dieticians, nurse-practitioners, physicians, nurses, LPNs, physiotherapists, phlebotomists, palliative specialists, wound specialists, and the most confusing misnomer of them all … home care.Try to be understanding.
Words that until then had been private … personal … excruciatingly painful …My rabbi listened and encouraged.I lit a fire in my chiminea. I placed my words in the fire.I placed the ashes of my beloved in a hollow I had dug in the garden … the beautiful place we had shared our lives … I planted an evergreen. Beside his little tree, I placed a brick I had painted black. On the brick, painted in white was a musical staff with a quarter note G.My rabbi spoke … incredibly, achingly beautiful words.
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