I was sharing this with a very valued follower earlier.. The power of music can help us to process so much. Parts of this post also deal with sibling grief that can often remain so silent.. and so unacknowledged.
My darling sister Judith died just over a month ago. There are some things that bring me close to her and are helping me in my grieving. One of them is the beautiful album by Eva Cassidy, Imagine, which I found when clearing out her room in the care home she lived in for the past ten years. On this album my most favourite song is Who knows where the time goes? In the beginning of this song is the image of birds flying away, there is an ending that has occurred, a movement away, perhaps a change of season as there was when my sister passed, leading to an absence and at the base of it grief, a sense of a chapter ending. This song and the instrumentation is so profoundly bittersweet and beautiful. Music has a rare power to touch something deep in my soul, opening the underground river of grief that is…
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Emerging From The Dark Night 