SWR: Sunsets without Joe

originally posted by Everett Bandman:
As a former Professor now retired, I have taken up a daily meditation practice over the past 10 years. For me thinking interferes with experiencing the present moment. Some thoughts such as the memories above may elicit emotions worthy of one's full awareness. We may believe we can think and feel at the same time, but its multitasking, going back and forth between the two activities. Meditation can allow you to experience that dichotomy. Anyone who's been thinking while driving and notices they haven't been aware of the last few moments of driving has experienced this phenomena. I lost my wife of 40 years on June 1, so am very aware of the episodic nature of grief as well as the healing nature of loving memories.
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Sorry for your loss. But, thanks for such a thoughtful post.
 
originally posted by Chris Coad:
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The man could rock those Hawaiian shirts (though that one was a Zegna)....
 
Although I didn't know Joe personally, I loved his posts here. Sudden unexpected loss, is particularly hard to deal with and generates a deep rooted grief. Eliciting warm loving memories from the past is great therapy. Shortly after my wife passed, I found her hope chest and found the love letters I wrote her 44 years ago that she secretly saved. I cried tears of joy reading them, as I rediscovered the open sharing person I was at 26. I had no idea I could write such heartfelt words. Those that pass often leave behind unexpected gifts for us. That gift has been so uplifting that grief doesn't visit very often now.
 
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